Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue

Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue
Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue
	The synagogue in 2017
Religion
Affiliation	Reform Judaism
Ecclesiastical or organisational status	Synagogue
Leadership	Rabbi Tali Artman Partock
Status	Active
Location
Location	1 Victory Road, Hermon Hill, Wanstead, London, England E11 1Ul
Country	United Kingdom
	Location of the synagogue in Greater London
Geographic coordinates	51°35′06″N 0°01′35″E / 51.5849°N 0.02631°E
Architecture
Type	Orphanage; chapel
Date established	1981 (as a congregation)
Completed	1861 (as an orphanage); 1995 (as a synagogue);
Materials	Red brick
Website
	sukkatshalom.org.uk
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official name	Former Merchant Seamen's Orphan Asylum at Wanstead Hospital and chapel to the north west of Wanstead Hospital
Type	Listed building
Designated	22 February 1979
Reference no.	1200737

Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue (transliterated from Hebrew as "Shelter of Peace"^[1]) is a Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Wanstead, in the Borough of Redbridge, London, England, in the United Kingdom.

The congregation is a member of the Movement for Reform Judaism. The rabbi of the congregation, since 2021, is Rabbi Tali Artman Partock.

History

The congregation was established in 1981 as the Epping Forest & District Reform Synagogue. In c. 1985, the congregation changed its name to the Buckhurst Hill Reform Synagogue; with a further name change to Sukkat Shalom Reform Synagogue in 1996.^[1]

Located in Bedford House, Buckhurst Hill, Essex from 1981 to 1995, the congregation acquired its current location in 1995 and subsequently renovated and restored the building as a synagogue. The site occupied by the synagogue is in the restored chapel of Wanstead Hospital, and previously the Merchant Seamen's Orphan's Asylum.^[1] The site was Grade II* listed with English Heritage in 1979.^[2]^[3]