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PMChapters: Bevis Marks Synagogue. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Rev Halfon Benarroch Shamash/Curator Maurice Bitton Open for visitors: Mon,Wed,Thurs 10.30-14.00,Tues+Fri 10.30-13.00,Sun 10.30-12.30 Services: Mon-Fri 07.30 Sun+Bank Holidays 09.00 Shabbat,Fri 18.30 Sat 08.30 Bevis Marks Synagogue (AKA Kahal Sahar Asamaim or Sha'ar ha-Shamayim) is located off Bevis Marks, in the City of London. The synagogue, affiliated to London's historic Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community, is the oldest synagogue in the United Kingdom still in use. It is a Grade 1 listed building. In 1698 Rabbi David Nieto took spiritual charge of a congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews (also called Sephardim) who met in a small synagogue in Creechurch Lane. A considerable influx of Jews made it necessary to obtain more commodious quarters. Accordingly a committee was appointed, consisting of Antonio Gomes Serra, Menasseh Mendes, Alfonso Rodrigues, Manuel Nunez Miranda, Andrea Lopez, and Pontaleao Rodriguez. It investigated matters for nearly a year, and on February 12, 1699, signed a contract with Joseph Avis, a Quaker, for the construction of a building to cost 2,750. Avis would later decline to collect his fee, on the ground that it was wrong to profit from building a house of God. On 24 June of the same year, the committee leased from Lady Ann Pointz (alias Littleton) and Sir Thomas Pointz (alias Littleton) a tract of land at Plough Yard, in Bevis Marks, for 61 years, with the option of renewal for a further 38 years, at 120 a year. Avis began building at once, reportedly incorporating in the roof a beam from a royal ship presented to the community by Queen Anne. The structure was completed and dedicated in 1702. With the exception of the roof (which was dest...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=22579


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  • ISBN-13: 9781156355664
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 34
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 64 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1156355664
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Bevis Marks Synagogue
  • Width: 229 mm


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