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Conveyance of piece of land fronting upon Green Farm Road Ely in the City of Cardiff, between Cardiff Corporation and Cardiff United Synagogue, 02 November 1965. It covers terms of conveyance and the extent of land.
It also includes a plan, drawn at a scale of 1:2500, of the land involved, with landmarks such as the cemetery, Green Farm Road, Marcross Road and Penmark Road. It shows the printed names and signatures of the different parties involved and of witnesses.
In the 1960s as the Cardiff United Synagogue congregation grew and Highfield Cemetery was close to capacity, the community looked for another location: a piece of land was brought on Green Farm Road, Ely, Cardiff.
The Cardiff United Synagogue was established in 1942 when the Cardiff Hebrew Congregation and the Cardiff New Hebrew Congregation were united into a single organisation. The community dates back to the arrival of Levi Marks and his family in the 1810s.
After meeting in various places, the Cardiff Hebrew Congregation built a synagogue in East Terrace in 1858. The congregation outgrew these premises, and a new synagogue was opened on Cathedral Road in 1897. In the late 1890s, a group of recent immigrants left the "Englisher shul" to form the "foreigners' shul", formally known as the Cardiff New Hebrew Congregation. They worshipped at Edward Place, then moved to Windsor Place in 1918.
After the 1942 reunification, the Cardiff United Synagogue continued to use both the Windsor Place and the Cathedral Road synagogues until 1955 when the lease on the former expired, and a new synagogue was built on Ty-Gwyn Road in Penylan. The Cathedral Road synagogue was in use until 1988. The Penylan synagogue was replaced in 2003 by the current premises in Cyncoed Gardens.
Sources:
JCR-UK: Jewish Communities & Records, Cardiff United Synagogue, Cardiff, Wales (2020) https://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/card/index.htm [accessed 1 August 2023]
Jewish History Association of South Wales/Cymdeithas Hanes Iddewig De Cymru (JHASW/CHIDC), Interactive Trails: Highfield Road Cemetery (2019) https://www.jhasw-heritage.com/trail.php?trail-id=29 [accessed 12 August 2023]
Parry-Jones, Cai, The History of the Jewish Diaspora in Wales (doctoral thesis, Bangor University, 2014)
https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/files/20579001/null [12 August 2023]
Depository: Glamorgan Archives: D765/6/9/1.
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