Wikipedia's first sentence called it “religious building close to maida vale”. Today it says “orthodox jewish congregation and synagogue”.
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Lauderdale Road Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue is a religious building close to Maida Vale (Lauderdale Road) in the West End of London . Like other Sephardi synagogues in London and Manchester , it maintains close links with the ‘mother’ congregation and some accept its ecclesiastical authority. Lauderdale Road Synagogue was opened in 1896 to accommodate the drift of Spanish and Portuguese members from Bevis Marks to West London (it was a successor to the Sephardi synagogue in Bryanston Street, near Marble Arch) . The Congregation's senior rabbi today is Rabbi Joseph Dweck who also usually attends Lauderdale Road Synagogue.1
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The Lauderdale Road Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue is a synagogue in Maida Vale on Lauderdale Road in West London .It is the community hub of the S&P Sephardi Community also known as Qahal Qadosh Shaar Shamayim (Hebrew translation: The Holy Congregation of the Gate of Heaven) which is Britain's oldest Jewish community and largest of Sephardi origin which also operates Bevis Marks Synagogue and Holland Park Synagogue.
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Synagogue in the City of Westminster, London, England The Lauderdale Road Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue , more commonly called the Lauderdale Road Synagogue , is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue , located in Maida Vale on Lauderdale Road in the City of Westminster , West London , England , in the United Kingdom. The synagogue is the community hub of the S&P Sephardi Community , also known as Qahal Qadosh Shaar Shamayim ( Hebrew translation: "The Holy Congregation of the Gate of Heaven"). The congregation worships in the Sephardi rite , and it is the oldest Jewish community and largest of Sephardi origin in the United Kingdom.The synagogue, completed in 1896, was designated as a Grade II listed building in 1989.National Heritage List for England .
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religious building close to maida vale
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orthodox jewish congregation and synagogue
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