We could find nothing on the history of this Great Synagogue but its closure in 1272 was due to the difficulties suffered by the Jews in England leading up to their expulsion in 1290. Medieval London gives a good, brief, introduction to the presence of Jews in London at this time and their subsequent expulsion.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Great Synagogue - Old Jewry
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Great Synagogue - Old Jewry
The Great Synagogue stood near this site until 1272. Corporation of London
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John Knox Presbyterian Church
The church was built on the site of what is now Clichy House. The street at that time was Green Street but the address of the church seems to have been Oxford Street, the name the street took just...
1 memorial
Swedish Church
There were enough Swedes in London (mainly sailors) for a congregation to form in 1710 and the first church was set up in Wapping in 1728 (pictured), opened by and named for (the future queen) Ulri...
2 memorials
James Hutton
A minister in the Moravian church and the Aldersgate bookseller of John Wesley's Journal. He convened the meeting at which John Wesley's second conversion took place.
1 memorial
1 memorial
Reverend Edward Blick
Rector of Rotherhithe 1835-67. The old parish church was St Mary the Virgin in St Marychurch Street, Rotherhithe, on the west side of the peninsula. Apparently the area on the other side of the p...
1 memorial
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