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| A Fieldgate Street Wedding |
| The other love of my life! |
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| This is what reamains of the interior of Princelet Street Synagogue |
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| The remnants of the Jewish East End of London is an endless source of fascination to me. I go there over and over again looking for the quaint and and historic. Visit one of the remaining shuls while they still exist. Attend a service, make up a minyan, sit in the ladies gallery-enjoy! |
| This is the outside of Fieldgate Street Synagogue |
| This is the outside of Princelet Street shul. This former Federation synagogue was abandoned in the 1960's. It was the Marie Celeste of synagogues - it was abandoned with the prayer books and other paraphernalia intact - as if the occupants had only popped out for a short walk. |
| The Chatan (bridegroom) looks happy |
| Have a wander round Whitechapel when you can. Look for marks on doors where mezuzahs used to be. Look out for old synagogues in hidden turnings. Spot memorials to times long past, and always expect the unexpected - you may even come across the ghost of Jack the Ripper! |
| Below are some interiors of wonderful Fieldgate St taken during a members wedding |
| Below is an interior of Princelet Street shul. 'Rodinsky's Room' was written about a recluse who lived in a room above this shul |
| Me standing outside Sandys Row Synagogue |
| Princelet Street shul |
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| Fieldgate Street epitomises the changes taking place in the East End. Its next door neighbour is now The East London Mosque - one group of immigrants has moved on while another group has arrived. |
| THE JEWISH EAST END OF LONDON Once every street corner in the Whitechapel area possessed its own synagogue (shul). Now only a few thousand elderly Jews live in the area and only 5 shuls remain active: They are: The Congregation of Jacob, Bevis Marks, Nelson Street, Fieldgate Street and Sandys Row. Each one is a spiritual gem. |
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| My page is dedicated with love and thanks to those members of my family who made a new life in this country. On the right is a photo of my grandma, mother, uncle & aunt taken in 1917. My grandma died a year later in the 1918 flu epedemic at the age of 28. The nursemaid is an employee of Mother Levy's - but that's another story. |