Affiliation Reform Judaism Completed 1960 Phone +44 113 266 5256 | Status Active Opened 1960 | |
Location Roman Avenue, Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS8 2AN
England Website www.sinaisynagogue.org.uk Address Roman Ave, Leeds LS8 2AN, UK Similar Milton Keynes & District R, Blackpool Reform Jewish C, Kol Chai Hatch End Jewish C, Shir Hayim, Thanet & District Reform S | ||
Sinai synagogue leeds uk sings shema in solidarity with the women at the wall 27 october 2012
Sinai Synagogue, Leeds is a Reform Jewish community on Roman Avenue in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1944 and is affiliated to the Movement for Reform Judaism. Its current rabbi is Ian Morris.
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- Sinai synagogue leeds uk sings shema in solidarity with the women at the wall 27 october 2012
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The community has a burial ground in current use at Harehills Cemetery, Leeds, which is managed by Leeds City Council.
History
The community was founded in January 1944. It held services at Friends' Meeting House in Street Lane and, later, in Newton Park Union Church Schoolroom on Chapeltown Town Road. From about 1951 to 1960 it held its services in the defunct Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue building at 21 Leopold Street, Leeds 7. Its current synagogue building, on Roman Road in Roundhay, dates from 1960 and was purpose-built.
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