We could find nothing on the history of this Great Synagogue but its closure in 1272 was due to the difficulties suffered by the Jews in England leading up to their expulsion in 1290. Medieval London gives a good, brief, introduction to the presence of Jews in London at this time and their subsequent expulsion.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Great Synagogue - Old Jewry
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Great Synagogue - Old Jewry
The Great Synagogue stood near this site until 1272. Corporation of London
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David Hope, Bishop of London
1992 Bishop of London 1991-5. 2005 created a life peer, Baron Hope of Thornes. 2013 caught up in a scandal concerning the 2003 child abuser, Dean of Manchester, Robert Waddington, whom Hope had no...
1 memorial
Rodney Smith
Evangelist. Born in a gipsy tent in Epping Forest, Wanstead. He began to hawk clothes pegs and tinware made by his father and became known as 'The Singing Gipsy Boy' because of his eagerness to sin...
1 memorial
John Gill, DD
Baptist pastor. Born Northamptonshire. Pastor at Goat Yard Chapel, Horselydown and/or the Baptist meeting-house in Carter Lane. In different sources we have read that Gill was succeeded in both ...
1 memorial
1 memorial
Ernest W. Beard
From the building society that funded the Rochester Square Spiritualist Temple. Advertised in the Hendon & Finchley Times in the 1920s and 30s.
1 memorial
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