page_title: Cardiff United Synagogue
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Cardiff United Synagogue / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Temple Court, Cathedral Road, Cardiff, Wales, seen from the west. Completed in 1897 as Cardiff United Synagogue but is now a secular office building.
context_page_description: The Cardiff United Synagogue is an Orthodox Jewish synagogue in the Cyncoed suburb of Cardiff, Wales.
  The synagogue maintains daily prayer services, led by Rabbi Michoel Rose.
  The synagogue also provides educational classes, youth and festivals programming and is instrumental in interfaith work in South Wales.
context_section_description: A Jewish community existed in Cardiff by 1841, when the Marquess of Bute donated land at Highfield for a Jewish Cemetery. The congregation, which is the result of the merger of several historic congregations, traces its roots to the Old Hebrew Congregation, which erected a synagogue building on Trinity Street in  1853, and to the Bute Street synagogue of  1858. Bute Street was the centre of the Jewish community in the nineteenth century.
  Former locations and ancestral congregations in Cardiff include the following:<
  Original (Old Hebrew) congregation,
  Trinity Street, Cardiff (1853–1858)
  East Terrace, Bute Street, Cardiff (1858–1897; redeveloped 1888)
  Cathedral Road, Cardiff (1897–1989)
  New (Orthodox) congregation,
  Edwards Place, Cardiff (1889–1900)
  Merches Place, Cardiff (1900–?)
  Windsor Place congregation, Windsor Place, Cardiff (1918–1955)
  Penylan congregation, Ty Gwyn Road, Penylan (1955–2003)
  The most architecturally distinguished of the several historic synagogue buildings was the classical/eclectic synagogue in Windsor Place. One of the congregation's former buildings was purchased in 1979 and converted into a Hindu temple. With the diminution of the Cardiff Jewish community and a drift away from the older neighborhoods, these congregations consolidated in the present, modern building in Cyncoed Gardens, Cyncoed, dedicated by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks in 2003.
caption: The former Cardiff Synagogue on Cathedral Road. This synagogue building is now an office block
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