The Machzike Hadath community synagogue is a Lithuanian synagogue founded in 1891. The synagogue, also known as the Spitalfields Great Synagogue, was founded in 1891 in the

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. In 1893, it merged with the Machzike Shomrei Shabbat Synagogue of Booth Street. In 1898 they acquired premises in

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, at the corner of Fournier Street and

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, where they remained for 70 years. The building, first established in 1743 as a

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("La Neuve Eglise") by London's French

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community and later a

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Chapel, is now the

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. The synagogue moved to

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in 1970 where its new building was consecrated in 1983. The first

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of the community was Rabbi Avraham Aba Werner (1891–1912). Later rabbis include Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak HaKohen Kook, and Rabbi

Yechezkel Abramsky Yehezkel Abramsky ( he, יחזקאל אברמסקי) (7 February 1886 – 19 September 1976), also affectionately referred to as Reb Chatzkel Abramsky, was a prominent and influential Lithuanian Jewish Orthodox rabbi and scholar, born and raised ...

. The current rabbi is Rabbi Ilan Halberstadt who was appointed in May 2018. In the late 1920s the Machzike Hadath sponsored the publication of an edition of the ''

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''.

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* - The official synagogue website
Machzike Hadath Synagogue
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''Jewish Communities and Records - UK''
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