Known as the “Jewish Association” until 1886
Address: 7a Bowland Street, Bradford, BD1 3BW
Ritual: Reform
Status: Active
Contact: bradfordsynagogue@googlemail.com
Date Formed: 1873 (foundation laid 1878, erected 1880)
A Grade 2 Listed building, in the Moorish style, and the first Reform synagogue to be built outside of London, and only the third Reform Synagogue to be funded in Britain.
An original constituent synagogue of the Reform Synagogues of Great Britain (which had been formed in 1940, initially under the name Associated British Synagogues.) Affiliated to the West London Synagogue of British Jews since 1880 .
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Adele
I know you would like to get in touch. I have tried the email address you provided but it bounced back. Can you email the shul directly through the Bradford Synagogue website contact form or info@ljrc.org and your details will be passed on.
I would like to visit your Beautiful Building, as a Bradfordian I know the area well & as a fellow Jew I’m more than interested in visiting & helping if I can,. Yours Adele Rose
Good evening to you and I and my Wife would like to come and visit your synagogue in Bradford if that is alright please .