Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation | |
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Religion | |
Affiliation | Orthodox Judaism |
Leadership | Rabbi Daniel Walker |
Status | Active |
Location | |
Location | Middleton Road, Crumpsall, North Manchester, United Kingdom |
Architecture | |
Completed | 1937 |
Materials | Red brick |
Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation is a large Ashkenazi Orthodox synagogue located in North Manchester, United Kingdom. [1] It was founded in 1935, and in 2010 had between 500 and 749 members. [2] Under the aegis of the Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, [3] Reverend Leslie Olsberg MBE led the congregation for 35 years until his death in 2008. [4] [5] [6] Rabbi Daniel Walker succeeded him, and currently heads the congregation. [7] Yehuda Marx is the hazzan .
The Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation was formally founded in 1935. By 1999, it had a membership of 550. [1] Reverend Leslie Olsberg retired from his position in 2008, aged 86, after 35 years' service. [4] The congregation is housed in a 1967 red brick postwar building on Middleton Road, Crumpsall. [8] Architectural historian Carol Herselle Krinsky describes it, unadmiringly, as having a "central block with projecting wings" and "a disproportionately large glass entrance wall." [9] According to architectural historian Sharman Kadish, the building is one of three Manchester area synagogues modelled on the 1934 building of Manchester's Holy Law Synagogue with its tripartite facade in a "pleasing international style." The other two are the Manchester Reform Synagogue Jackson's Row, and the Prestwich Hebrew Congregation. [10]
On 22 April 2000 and again on 15 September 2002 antisemitic remarks were shouted at the synagogue. [11] [12] Synagogue security cameras captured a murder on film in 2008, when violinist Michael Kahan was stabbed to death outside a Kosher bakery near the synagogue building by a mentally ill assailant. [13] [14]
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