Building a synagogue at Garnethill
Garnethill Synagogue was opened on 9th September 1879. In the days following, newspapers across the country reported on both the beauty of the building and the stateliness of the consecration ceremony. The Jewish Chronicle reported on “…a new and...
Foundations
The synagogue on Hill Street was built to accommodate a congregation previously based in George Street in Glasgow. The congregation had been steadily growing throughout the 1870s and the minutes of Glasgow Hebrew Congregation first noted, in 1871, that the existing...
From Cradle to Grave
In 1879 around a thousand Jewish people were living in Glasgow. Services, marriages and funerals were conducted by the synagogue’s minister, Rev. E.P. Phillips, and the reader and assistant minister, Rev. Isaac Levine. Together with the beadle, Abraham Goodman, they...
