Newport Synagogue

Newport Synagogue

Status: not active

Address: 45 St. Marks Crescent, Risca Road, Newport NP20 4HY

Former Address: 3 Queens Hill Crescent, Newport (previously Francis Street, Newport)

Current Status: There are only 6 members of the synagogue (updated 2014), no services are held.

Date Founded: 1871 (Synagogue opened)

Ritual: Ashkenazi Orthodox

NEWPORT’S Jewish community is among the smallest in the UK, now counting just six members.

Members of the synagogue in Newport have said they have not been able to hold a service in over a year because of the low figures.

The community, which celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2012, used to meet in a synagogue in Queen’s Hill but moved after they could no longer afford to run it.

13 Comments

  1. Jeremy Leifer

    I am hoping to locate my great-grandmother’s grave in the old cemetery in Newport. She died in 1931 and we know that she is buried there.

    Is there someone I could contact to arrange for access to the cemetery please?

    Jeremy Leifer

  2. Eilisha

    I am about to finish my Master’s Degree in Information Management, as part of this I have to do a project which I have chosen to be related to family history research.
    I have a user experience consultation which I would appreciate if it could be distributed as my prototype will be based on the Newport Jewish Cemetery
    The short link is here:
    https://forms.office.com/e/0XwxPd0RbJ

    The consultation is open until the end of June 2024

  3. Ms Judith Goldsmith

    Is there anyone who could show me and my eight year old granddaughter around the synagogue and cemetery?
    She is very proud of her Jewish heritage and we only recently discovered that the interesting building we pass all the time is a synagogue.

  7. Dave Daniels

    Does anyone have any biographical information/memories/anecdotes/gossip about Miss (Leah?) Black of Car Exchange (Newport, Mon.) Ltd? She seems to have been a very successful car dealer, when women were rare in the industry.

  13. John Barnett

    Good Day,

    I hope this email finds you well.

    The purpose of my writing is to ask whether you have any archive photographs available of the plaque commemorating the war dead of the First World War.

    I am a great nephew of two brothers, who I believe may have been commemorated on such a memorial, namely Sergeant Ruben Orman and Zephaniah Orman (aka Harry Normand).

    Wishing you well, & Chanuka Sameach in advance,

    John Barnett

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