Cardiff United Synagogue
The Cardiff United Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in Cardiff, Wales.
History
A Jewish community existed in Cardiff by 1841, when the Marquess of Bute donated land at Highfield for a Jewish Cemetery. The congregation, which is the result of the merger of several historic congregations, traces its roots to the Old Hebrew Congregation, which erected a synagogue building on Trinity Street in 1853, and to the Bute Street synagogue of 1858.[1] Bute Street was the center of the Jewish community in the nineteenth century.[2]
Former locations and ancestral congregations in Cardiff include the following:[3]
- Original (Old Hebrew) congregation,
- Trinity Street, Cardiff (1853–1858)
- East Terrace, Bute Street, Cardiff (1858–1897; redeveloped 1888)
- Cathedral Road, Cardiff (1897–1989)
- New (Orthodox) congregation,
- Edwards Place, Cardiff (1889–1900)
- Merches Place, Cardiff (1900–?)
- Windsor Place congregation, Windsor Place, Cardiff (1918–1955)
- Penylan congregation, Ty Gwyn Road, Penylan (9 January 1955–2003)
The most architecturally distinguished of the several historic synagogue buildings was the classical/eclectic synagogue in Windsor Place. One of the congregation's former buildings was purchased in 1979 and converted into a Hindu temple.[4] With the diminution of the Cardiff Jewish community and a drift away from the older neighborhoods, these congregations consolidated in the present, modern building in Cyncoed Gardens, dedicated by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in 2003.[5]
Choir
The congregation has a notable choir.[6]
References
- ↑ "Worship". Cardiff:The Building of a Capital. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
- ↑ Geoffrey Alderman, Modern British Jewry (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998), p. 26.
- ↑ "Cardiff United Synagogue". Jewish Communities and Records – United Kingdom. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
- ↑ Raymond Brady Williams, An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001), p. 222.
- ↑
- ↑ "Cardiff Synagogue Choir". CUS Website. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
External links
- Cardiff United Synagogue Web site
- Shree Swaminarayan Temple - current use of the old synagogue building.
- Cardiff United Synagogue on Jewish Communities and Records - UK (hosted by jewishgen.org).
Coordinates: 51°30′21″N 3°09′37″W / 51.5058°N 3.1603°W