Buildings
Currently located on Somerton Road, the congregation previously had the Synagogue building on Annesley Street (1904–1964) and Great Victoria Street (1871–1904). (The foundation stones were dated July 7, 1871 and February 26, 1904.)
The synagogue is unusual in that it is circular, not rectangular. There is no balcony for women, but a raised platform on either side. The roof is held up by concrete-covered beams that forms the shape of a Star of David.
The synagogue has a plaque in memory of Jews killed during the Holocaust. Listed in the U.K. National Inventory of War Memorials, the English part of the inscription reads: "In memory of the martyred millions of European Jewry 1933-1945."
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“If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means—from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.”
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