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The Dalston Synagogue was a Jewish place of worship in the London Borough of IslingtonNewington Green, North London, from about 1885 to 1970. It was also known as the Poets Road Synagogue and was not in Dalston, another area of north-east London. Jews fleeing the pogroms of the Russian Empire, and those beginning to leave the East End of London and move northwards towards Stoke Newington and Stamford Hill established a congregation in the neighbourhood by 1876. This became one of the leading members of the United Synagogue List of synagogues in the Hill., This formed a United Synagogue,〔Peter Renton, The Lost Synagogues of London, Tymsder Publishers, 2000〕 and its Victorian Gothic building was erected in Poets Road in 1885.〔Allardyce, p39.〕 Jacob Koussevitzsky, a member of the famous Koussevitzky cantorial family, was its cantor from 1936〔 (though another source says only the 1950s〔)/ At its height, the Poets Road Synagogue had hundreds of worshippers;〔 it closed in the late 1960s, as the remaining Jewish population moved on further afield.〔 The synagogue site was eventually sold and the beautiful building, along with its stained glass windows, was demolished in 1970 and replaced by a block of council flats, leaving no trace of the Jewish life which existed in this area. ==Religious neighbours== Other religious institutions existed nearby. The original Adath Israel orthodox congregation was founded in this area and its first permanent building was in Alma Road, off Green Lanes, before moving on towards Stoke Newington and the other side of Clissold Park in the 1950s. The Shacklewell Lane synagogue was located in Dalston, close to the Ridley Road market. Since the Poets Road synagogue, which was really located in Canonbury, was called the Dalston Synagogue, the Shacklewell Lane synagogue had to take on the name of the New Dalston Synagogue.This building is now a mosque. Other nearby synagogues included the Finsbury park synagogue, close to Clissold park and manor House, and the smaller, less formal, Goldblums Shtiebel in Highbury New Park. From the mid seventeenth century, Newington Green had been known as an area tolerant of religious minorities, specifically Dissenters, and the church on the green reflected that. Its minister from 1947, John Reece Walker, was known as an interfaith worker, and "made a remarkable contribution to the cause of good relations between Christians and Jews in North London".〔ch 8. 〕 Also on the green was the China Inland Mission, founded in 1865 and its headquarters built in 1895. St Matthias, one of London's foremost High Churches, was built nearby from 1849–53,〔Allardyce, p33.〕〔'Stoke Newington: Churches', (''A History of the County of Middlesex'' ): Volume 8: Islington and Stoke Newington parishes (1985), pp. 204-211. Accessed 29 May 2009.〕 Pre-dating all of these is the impressive Anglican church in the parish of Stoke Newington; it is dedicated to St Mary, as is the "new" (1858) church opposite, by Sir George Gilbert Scott.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dalston Synagogue」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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