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Finchley Reform Synagogue
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “synagogue in north finchley in the london borough of barnet”. Today it says “reform jewish congregation and synagogue”.
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Finchley Reform Synagogue , a member of the Movement for Reform Judaism , is a synagogue in North Finchley in the London Borough of Barnet . The current building, which seats 220 people, dates from 1974 and replaced an earlier, 1961, synagogue building on the same site. A History of the County of Middlesex: .1
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Then
synagogue in north finchley in the london borough of barnet
Now
reform jewish congregation and synagogue
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