Bevis Marks Synagogue (AKA Kahal Sahar Asamaim or Sha'ar ha-Shamayim) is located off Bevis Marks, in the City of London. The synagogue, affiliated to London's historic Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community, is the oldest synagogue in the United Kingdom still in use. It is a Grade 1 listed building.
In 1698 Rabbi David Nieto took spiritual charge of a congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews (also called Sephardim) who met in a small synagogu...
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Bevis Marks Synagogue (AKA Kahal Sahar Asamaim or Sha'ar ha-Shamayim) is located off Bevis Marks, in the City of London. The synagogue, affiliated to London's historic Spanish and Portuguese Jewish community, is the oldest synagogue in the United Kingdom still in use. It is a Grade 1 listed building.
In 1698 Rabbi David Nieto took spiritual charge of a congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews (also called Sephardim) who met in a small synagogue in Creechurch Lane. A considerable influx of Jews made it necessary to obtain more commodious quarters. Accordingly a committee was appointed, consisting of António Gomes Serra, Menasseh Mendes, Alfonso Rodrigues, Manuel Nunez Miranda, Andrea Lopez, and Pontaleão Rodriguez. It investigated matters for nearly a year, and on February 12, 1699, signed a contract with Joseph Avis, a Quaker, for the construction of a building to cost £2,750. Avis would later decline to collect his fee, on the ground that it was wrong to profit from building a...
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