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Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery

Memorials	:	145
Location	:	Bethnal Green, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England
Coordinate	:	51.5232120, -0.0448120
Description	:	The United Synagogue Burial Society is responsible for all the activities surrounding the burial of its members. It organises, oversees and advises on the various processes that are required by both Jewish and English law.They are also responsible for maintaining the infrastructure of burial grounds and mortuaries.They maintain eleven cemeteries, both active and disused. It is not always practical due to the ever-present threat of vandalism and Health and Safety legislation to keep all the cemeteries permanently open. (Those that are permanently open are Bushey, Waltham Abbey, Willesden and East Ham Cemetery) In this God's Acre lie the mortal remains of... Read More	The United Synagogue Burial Society is responsible for all the activities surrounding the burial of its members. It organises, oversees and advises on the various processes that are required by both Jewish and English law.They are also responsible for maintaining the infrastructure of burial grounds and mortuaries.They maintain eleven cemeteries, both active and disused. It is not always practical due to the ever-present threat of vandalism and Health and Safety legislation to keep all the cemeteries permanently open. (Those that are permanently open are Bushey, Waltham Abbey, Willesden and East Ham Cemetery) In this God's Acre lie the mortal remains of many of the founders and prominent members of the London Ashkenasi community.It is a little known cemetery near to London's Stepney Green Underground Station. It is the first Ashkenasi burial ground in England after the Resettlement in 1656. The first Jews to live openly and freely in England after the Expulsion in 1290 were mostly Sephardim, Jews emanating from Spain and Portugal. They had lived in London as crypto Jews, Marranos, from about 1630, but when war broke out between England and Spain in 1656 Antonio Rodrigues Robles successfully petitioned the Courts that as a Jew, although of Spanish birth, he was not to be regarded as an enemy alien. Once Robles was allowed to remain in England it was not long before his co-religionists 'came out of the closet'. They formed a Jewish community, worshipping and conducting itself according to the Sephardi rite. When the first Ashkenasi Jews came to this country after 1656 they worshipped with the Sephardi community in small houses near Dukes Place, London, and when they died they utilized the Sephardi cemetery in Mile End which had been opened in 1657. As their numbers grew, the Ashkenasim established their own minyan and, according to Cecil Roth in his The Great Synagogue, London (the classic work on which any Anglo-Jewish history of this period must heavily rely), formed an organized community in 1690. In 1696, the Alderney Road Ashkenazi cemetery was established.When Jewish communities later began to establish themselves in the first half of the eighteenth century in Provincial towns, often their first act of communal organization, even before building a synagogue, was to purchase land for a cemetery.1 In London, however, they first built for themselves a synagogue, but continued to rely upon the Sephardim to bury their dead. The Sephardi authorities became anxious about the number of tudescos, as they called their Ashkenasi brethren, who were being buried in their cemetery, especially, perhaps, the number of poor dead who were a charge on their communal funds.

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Alderney Road Jewish Cemetery is located at Alderney Road Bethnal Green, London Borough of Tower Hamlets ,Greater London ,England.
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Latitude: 51.5232120
Longitude: -0.0448120

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Coordinate: 51.5229030, -0.0437630

2. Bancroft Almshouses Cemetery
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Coordinate: 51.5243340, -0.0402940

3. Sephardi New Cemetery
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6. Maiden Lane Jewish Cemetery
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7. Stepney Meeting House Burial Ground
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8. Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park
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11. Rose Lane Chapel Chapelyard
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12. Vallance Road Recreation Ground
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Coordinate: 51.5200860, -0.0629160

13. St. Matthew's Churchyard
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Coordinate: 51.5251190, -0.0672250

14. Lauriston Road Jewish Cemetery
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Coordinate: 51.5373490, -0.0436210

15. St Anne's Limehouse Churchyard
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Coordinate: 51.5120818, -0.0298991

16. St. Paul's with St. James Churchyard
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Coordinate: 51.5093840, -0.0520990

17. St. George-in-the-East Churchyard
Stepney, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England
Coordinate: 51.5099610, -0.0599100

18. St. Mary Matfelon Church
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Coordinate: 51.5162030, -0.0684970

19. St. Leonard's Churchyard
Bromley-by-Bow, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England
Coordinate: 51.5284920, -0.0132780

20. St. Leonard Churchyard
Shoreditch, London Borough of Hackney, England
Coordinate: 51.5268230, -0.0773640

21. Execution Dock
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Coordinate: 51.5035600, -0.0564090

22. Holywell Priory
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Coordinate: 51.5238050, -0.0785300

23. Abbey of the Minoresses of St. Clare without Aldgate Churchyard
Aldgate, City of London, England
Coordinate: 51.5125370, -0.0749860

24. St Botolph without Aldgate Churchyard
Aldgate, City of London, England
Coordinate: 51.5140120, -0.0763420

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