Comments on: At Fieldgate St Great Synagogue

By: Karen Rennie

Karen Rennie — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 11:59:09 +0000

my grandfather Alex Fishman was a chairman at no.2 Heneage Street Synagogue
– here is a link
found by my cousins to it’s history…https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/London/EE_ezras/index.htm
and also http://cja.huji.ac.il/browser.php?mode=set&id=5457
If walls could speak?

By: Vivienne Wright (Roll)

Vivienne Wright (Roll) — Fri, 01 Jun 2018 16:59:57 +0000

I was married in Fieldgate Street Great Synagogue in 1952 and served in the Ladies Guild until babies took over my time. I met Mr Zlotnicke senior. My father in law, Maurice Roll, served the synagogue in various capacities. Thank you for the photographs.they revived many memories.

By: Martine Kaufman

Martine Kaufman — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 14:43:06 +0000

This made me so sad. It has now gone the way of my childhood Shul Great Garden Street. These synagogues have a beauty of their own, a heritage. Our East End has nearly all gone. Could this Shul
Not be made into a museum. Perhaps it would be somewhere to bring our grandchildren, into a world they never knew.

By: Emmanuel Grodzinski

Emmanuel Grodzinski — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 22:59:12 +0000

The bomb that damaged the synagogue in December 1941, destroyed the next door building: Grodzinski’s bakery that had stood on that site for decades. Indeed, the basement of the bakery, which contained the ovens, extended underneath the synagogue.
On Fridays, in the winter, local families would leave their cholent pots in the ovens and collect them after Shul the following morning.

By: Neville Turner

Neville Turner — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 11:45:25 +0000

An interesting post and good photo’s just as I remember the layout owing to many of my friends from Robert Montifiore school inviting me inside some times to make up the number required for a service which is 10 called a minyan. Keep up the good work.

By: Lynn Roffee

Lynn Roffee — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 22:13:36 +0000

It would be a shame if those panels, detailing such wonderful family details, were destroyed. Perhaps the buyers should be approached with a view of carefully removing the panels and offering them to the Jewush community.

By: Ros

Ros — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 20:48:44 +0000

This is a beautiful piece, beautifully photographed. Yes, that hot water urn….

By: Rina

Rina — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 08:09:59 +0000

Thank you for documenting this so sensitively. It’s important that the Jewish community’s presence in the area is never forgotten.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 07:36:45 +0000

So much in that hot water urn picture. The old style carpet still in good condition, maybe chosen with pleasure. The plastic tablecloths, the awkward heater. Time gone.

By: Valerie-Jael

Valerie-Jael — Sun, 06 Dec 2015 07:01:36 +0000

How sad. Valerie