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JEWISH SYNAGOGUE, DEVONPORT

The Jewish Synagogue in Devonport was at 66 Chapel Street.  It was damaged in the Blitz of 1941 and and site taken inside the Royal Dockyard in the 1950s.

In May 1907 the Reverend J Goldston, master of the Jacob Nathan School in Well Street, Plymouth, consecrated a room in a house in St Aubyn Street, Devonport, for the use of the local Hebrew community.

Then on Sunday January 19th 1908 a spacious new hall in Chapel Street, Devonport, was consecrated for them by the Reverend D Jacobs from the Plymouth Synagogue, assisted by the Reverend L Stavinsky and the Reverend J Goldston.

The President of the Synagogue was Mr J Greenburgh and the Secretary was Mr H R Emdon.

SEE ALSO Jewish Synagogue, Plymouth.

My thanks to Rosemary Wenzerul, a great neice of the Reverend Goldston, for pointing out the correct spelling of his surname.

 

Copyright:   Brian Moseley, Plymouth, UK

Page updated:  21 October 2006

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