Seder Chanukath HaBayith - Order of Service at the Consecration of the Western Synagogue, St. Alban’s Place, St. James’s.

(ANGLO-JUDAICA).

M. Solomon

London

1826

Hebrew and English on facing pages. On both title-pages, the printed date of the ceremony has been neatly corrected in a contemporary hand.

The Westminster Synagogue, one of the first Aschkenazic synagogues in England, was founded in 1761. Whilst adhering to strict Orthodox principles, nonetheless it was the first London synagogue to preach sermons in the English language. In 1797 it moved to Denmark Court and occupied the former Sans Souci Theatre (“Charles Dibdin’s” Theatre) off The Strand. In 1826 it renamed itself The Western Synagogue having built an elaborate synagogue off the Haymarket in St. Alban’s Place. Now amalgamated, it is known today as the The Western Marble Arch Synagogue and is located on Great Cumberland Place.