JEWISH EAST END OF LONDON PHOTO GALLERY & COMMENTARY

London's East End Synagogues, cemeteries and more......

My personal journey through the Jewish East End of London

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Fieldgate Street synagogue closed in 2012.  The building is still standing in 2014.  The story of their Purim scroll is below:

 

Fieldgate Street synagogue, London E1	Fieldgate Street synagogue

These photos were taken in Fieldgate Street synagogue, London E1, Purim, 2006. The scroll of Esther (megillah) used is very special, as Torah scribe Avielah Barclay has commented:

I've really enjoyed looking at these pictures magnified - so much to be seen! Yes, I agree it's beautifully written, and the spacing not just the lettering is excellent, so it must have been a real joy to read. The script is German or possibly Polish (Prussian? Pomeranian?) and Chassidic so the sofer was Ashkenazi and a mystic. Very good quality iron-gall ink, too. Very interesting that the Aseret B'nai Haman are written in Sefardi script, then reverts back to the original Ashkenazi ketav Arizal.

 

Sons of Haman listed in the Purim scroll	Reading the Megillah
Reverend David Silverstein on the bimah with the Megillah	Fieldgate Street synagogue interior looking towards the Ark