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London Metropolitan Archives

CRICKLEWOOD SYNAGOGUE


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0074 ACC/2712/CKS

Held at: London Metropolitan Archives

Title: CRICKLEWOOD SYNAGOGUE

Date(s): 1923-2004

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 2.79 linear metres

Name of creator(s): Cricklewood Synagogue

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Cricklewood Synagogue was first established in a private house on Walm Lane, used for worship from 1928. It was initially known as the Willesden Green and Cricklewood Hebrew Congregation. In 1931 a synagogue was constructed next door to the house, and was admitted as a Constituent member of the United Synagogue in the same year, changing its name to Cricklewood Synagogue. In 1989 the main synagogue building was sold and the congregation moved into a smaller hall. The Synagogue was closed in 2005.

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

Records of Cricklewood Synagogue, consisting of minutes, ledgers of membership payments and an admission card.

Material in more recent deposits included Board of Management minute books, committee minutes; administrative papers relating to membership, marriages, finances, officers, elections and the management of the synagogue; income and expenditure account books; cash books; petty cash books; marriage registers; lists and registers of members; newsletters and other printed items; and photographs.

PLEASE NOTE: Records can only be accessed with the written permission of the depositor. Contact the Chief Executive, United Synagogue.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

The first deposit was arranged in three series:
Membership (ACC/2712/CKS-1);
Synagogue records (ACC/2712/CKS-2) and
Finance (ACC/2712/CKS-3).

Newer deposits have been arranged as follows:
ACC/2712/CKS/01: Administration;
ACC/2712/CKS/02: Finance;
ACC/2712/CKS/03: Membership;
ACC/2712/CKS/04: Printed Material;
ACC/2712/CKS/05: Visual Material.

Conditions governing access:

Membership account books are closed to public inspection. Other material is available for consultation only with the written permission of the United Synagogue's Chief Executive.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Copyright to these records rests with the depositor.

Physical characteristics:

Fit.

Finding aids:

Please see online catalogues at: http://search.lma.gov.uk/opac_lma/index.htm

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited as part of a larger accession of material from the United Synagogue. The minutes (item 1) forms part of the original deposit, while the other records are part of additional deposits made in 2005 and 2008.

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: Description prepared in March 2010.


INDEX ENTRIES
Subjects
Administration | Organisation and management
Ashkenazim | Jews | Religious groups
Financial records | Documents | Information sources
Jewish | Cultural identity
Membership | Group behaviour | Social behaviour
Orthodox Judaism | Judaism | Ancient religions | Religions
Synagogues | Religious buildings | Buildings | Architecture
Religion

Personal names

Corporate names
Cricklewood Synagogue
United Synagogue

Places
Cricklewood | Camden | London | England | UK | Western Europe | Europe
Brent