Temple Fortune is a place in the London Borough of Barnet to the north of Golders Green. It is principally a shopping district used by residents of the Hampstead Garden Suburb. Between here and Golders Green, at Hoop Lane are two important cemeteries. The Jewish Cemetery and interred here are the remains of a number of famous people. The second cemetery is Golders Green Crematorium. There is a Police Station. To the west is a small Carmelite Monastery. Religious buildings include the Catholic Church of St Edward the Confessor, the Anglican Church of St Barnabas, and North Western Reform Synagogue (also known as Alyth Shul).
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