Montefiore Synagogue

The Montefiore Synagogue is the previous private synagogue of Sir Moses Montefiore. It is a 1833, Grade II recorded working in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The synagogue and sepulcher are thought about and kept up by the Montefiore Endowment. The gift additionally keeps up the adjacent Ramsgate Jewish Cemetery. Sir Moses Montefiore previously came to Ramsgate in 1812 on his vacation with his significant other Judith Cohen, sister-in-law to Nathan Rothschild. Ramsgate had a little Jewish Community since 1786. The synagogue was in the European convention of extraordinary men having private houses of prayer on their homes. Sir Moses Montefiore had the synagogue constructed promptly after buying East Cliff Lodge in 1831.

On the day the building was committed, Montefiore satisfied the Jewish custom of checking such an event by offering philanthropy to the poor by offering cash to be disseminated by the clerics of the two neighboring Church of England parishes. David Mocatta, a cousin, was procured to structure the Synagogue. Mocatta evaluated the expense at somewhere in the range of 1,500 and 1,600 selective of the inside which was to cost from 300 to 400. The establishment stone was laid on the New Moon of Tammuz 5691 or 9 August 1831.