Manchester Reform Synagogue
The congregation has been using temporary premises at Manchester University's Chapel on Oxford Road, since November 2022, while it seeks a permanent home.Horatio Michollis, the inaugural president, and rabbi Solomon Marcus Schiller-Szinessy led a group consisting mainly of German-Jewish immigrants to form the congregation in 1857.This building was destroyed on 1 June 1941 as a result of bombing raids by the German airforce during the Manchester Blitz.Albert Isaacs, Alexander Levy, and Frederick Lister laid the cornerstone on 18 May 1952.The former synagogue building at Jackson's Row was used as a filming location for the 2021 BBC TV series Ridley Road.
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