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Places of religious significance. Worth a visit for the architecture, the art or the history.
The grandest Victorian synagogue interior in Britain, on a Bayswater side street, seen by arrangement rather than walked into.
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Bayswater in the 1870s was where prosperous Anglo-Jewish families moved, and they built accordingly: a synagogue in a mixture of Gothic and Moorish with a rose window, horseshoe arches, marble columns and a vaulted apse over the ark, finished in 1879. The interior is protected at the highest grade, which is rare for a building of that date and very rare for a synagogue.
It is a working Orthodox congregation rather than a monument, and the street is quiet enough that the building is easy to walk past. Visits are arranged in advance through the synagogue rather than by turning up, which is worth knowing before you make the journey.
St Petersburgh Place is a strange and good place to stand in any case: the synagogue, St Matthew's church and the Greek cathedral a street away are all within sight of one another.
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