Liberal Jewish Synagogue (London)

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The Liberal Jewish Synagogue, or LJS (Hebrew: קהל קדוש לב חדש‎, Qahal Kadosh Lev Chadash, "Holy Congregation New Heart"), is a house of prayer in St John's Wood, London, the oldest and largest member of Liberal Judaism in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1911, it is currently led by Rabbi Alexandra Wright.
The first LJS was in a former chapel in Hill Street, Park Road. It no longer exists. By 1918, it was evident that a larger building was needed for the growing community and a site was purchased at the present location in St John’s Wood Road. The LJS, an imposing synagogue seating 1,350, was opened in 1925. The building was seriously damaged by an enemy bomb in 1940, and although it was repaired by 1950 and a new classroom block and small synagogue built to one side in the 1960s, serious structural defects prompted the community to undertake a major re-building project in the late 1980s. The building was demolished in 1988, only the original portico being retained; the right to build flats around and above the synagogue was purchased by a developer, and the present building was opened in 1991.

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