Cardiff United Synagogue

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Cardiff United Synagogue
Religion
Affiliation Orthodox Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organisational status Synagogue
StatusActive
Location
LocationCyncoed Gardens, Cyncoed, Cardiff, Wales CF23 5SL
Country United Kingdom
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Location of the synagogue in Wales
Geographic coordinates 51°30′21″N3°09′37″W / 51.5058°N 3.1603°W / 51.5058; -3.1603
Architecture
Date established1841 (as a congregation)
  • 1853 (Old Hebrew)
  • 1889 (New Orthodox)
  • 1918 (Windsor Place)
  • 1955 (Penylan)
  • 2003 (merged)
Completed

The Cardiff United Synagogue, also called the Cardiff Shul, is an Orothodox Jewish synagogue, located in Cyncoed Gardens, in the Cyncoed suburb of Cardiff, Wales, in the United Kingdom.

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The synagogue maintains daily prayer services, led by Rabbi Michoel Rose. The synagogue also provides educational classes, youth and festivals programming and is instrumental in interfaith work in South Wales. [1]

History

The former synagogue building on Cathedral Road; now an office block Temple Court Offices, Cathedral Road.jpg
The former synagogue building on Cathedral Road; now an office block

A Jewish community existed in Cardiff by 1841, when the Marquess of Bute donated land at Highfield for a Jewish cemetery. The congregation that is now established in Cyncoed is the result of the merger of several historic congregations, and can trace 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. [2] Bute Street was the centre of the Jewish community in the nineteenth century. [3]

Former locations and ancestral congregations in Cardiff include the following: [4]

The most architecturally distinguished of the several historic synagogue buildings was the classical/eclectic synagogue in Windsor Place.[ citation needed ] One of the congregation's former buildings was purchased in 1979 and converted into a Hindu temple. [5] With the diminution of the Cardiff Jewish community and a drift away from the older neighbourhoods, these congregations consolidated in the present, modern building in Cyncoed Gardens, Cyncoed, dedicated by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in 2003. [6]

Notable members

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References

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