Sandys Row Synagogue was founded in 1854 by Dutch immigrants from Amsterdam and is now London’s oldest Ashkenazi Synagogue and the last still functioning in Spitalfields, in the heart of the former Jewish East End.
The Hidden Histories project celebrates the unique story of this historic community through making the Sandys Row archive available digitally.
Watch the film to learn more about the development of this project, scroll through the Timeline to uncover key moments in Sandys Row’s story and explore the extensive Digital Archive which includes: excerpts from the oral history collection, searchable marriage records, minute books, seat registers and more, along with photographs of our collection of Judaica.