Brief history of the Hull Western Synagogue, now the Judeo-Christian Study Centre.

Includes:

Overcrowding at the Robinson Row Synagogue caused by immigration from Russia, Poland and Austria; Need for new synagogue in the Linnaeus Street area due to relocation of established Jewish community in Hull; 1901 purchase of land on the site of Linden House, Linnaeus Street; Hull Hebrew Girls' School transferred from Osborne Street to nos.15 and 17 Linnaeus Street; Construction of a 450 seat synagogue designed by Benjamin Septimus Jacobs, architect, the synagogue's first president; 200 seats added to design a month after construction began; Grade II listed status of the Linnaeus Street synagogue; Foundation stone laid 25 Sep 1902 by Osmond Elim D'Avigod Goldsmid; Board of Guardians relocation to the new synagogue; Opened by Chief Rabbi Dr Herman Adler on 2 May 1903; Grand Bazaars held to finance the building of the synagogue; 1913 Mortgage Redemption Fund started; Purchase of 19 Linnaeus Street in 1922 as Headmaster's house; Iron gates donated by widow and children of Edward Gosschalk in 1926; Damage to the building during WWII; Doug Smelt and Norma Hunter currently collecting stories of the synagogue.