Cardiff United Synagogue Explained

Cardiff United Synagogue
Religious Affiliation:Orthodox Judaism
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Organisational Status:Synagogue
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Functional Status:Active
Location:Cyncoed Gardens, Cyncoed, Cardiff, Wales CF23 5SL
Country:United Kingdom
Map Type:Wales
Map Size:250
Map Relief:1
Coordinates:51.5058°N -3.1603°W
Established:1841
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The Cardiff United Synagogue, also called the Cardiff Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue, located in Cyncoed Gardens, in the Cyncoed suburb of Cardiff, Wales, in the United Kingdom.

The synagogue maintains daily prayer services, led by Rabbi Michoel Rose. The synagogue also provides educational classes, youth and festivals programming and is instrumental in interfaith work in South Wales.[1]

History

A Jewish community existed in Cardiff by 1841, when the Marquess of Bute donated land at Highfield for a Jewish cemetery. The congregation that is now established in Cyncoed is the result of the merger of several historic congregations, and can trace its roots to the Old Hebrew Congregation, which erected a synagogue building on Trinity Street in 1853, and to the Bute Street synagogue of 1858.[2] Bute Street was the centre of the Jewish community in the nineteenth century.[3]

Former locations and ancestral congregations in Cardiff include the following:[4]

The most architecturally distinguished of the several historic synagogue buildings was the classical/eclectic synagogue in Windsor Place. One of the congregation's former buildings was purchased in 1979 and converted into a Hindu temple.[5] With the diminution of the Cardiff Jewish community and a drift away from the older neighbourhoods, these congregations consolidated in the present, modern building in Cyncoed Gardens, Cyncoed, dedicated by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in 2003.[6]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Holt . Faygie Levy . Cardiff Rabbi Builds Sukkah Awareness Through BBC Radio Show in Wales . Chabad.org . 17 September 2015.
  2. Web site: Worship . Cardiff:The Building of a Capital . 2009-05-24 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090907011510/http://www.glamro.gov.uk/check/Building%20of%20a%20Capital%202/A_Worship.html . 2009-09-07 .
  3. Book: Alderman, Geoffrey . Geoffrey Alderman . Modern British Jewry' . Oxford . . 1998 . 26 .
  4. Web site: Cardiff United Synagogue . . 25 December 2019 . 20 July 2020.
  5. Book: Brady Williams, Raymond . An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism . Cambridge . . 2001 . 222 .
  6. News: Chief visits Bristol and Cardiff . Something Jewish . 16 December 2003 . 26 August 2008 . 10 May 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120510221504/http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/717_chief_visits_bristol.htm . dead .