Letter from West Monmouth School thanking the Newport Mon Hebrew Congregation for facilitating a GCSE Religious Studies visit, 3 May 1988

Disgrifiad

The letter is from West Monmouth School in Pontypool thanking Mr and Mrs Nathan at the Newport Mon Hebrew Congregation for facilitating a visit to the synagogue for students studying for their GCSE in Religious Studies.

West Monmouth School is a secondary school in Pontypool which was established in 1898.

Newport Monmouthshire Hebrew Congregation was founded in 1859 by orthodox Jews meeting at a temporary synagogue in Llanarth Street. A synagogue at Francis Street was opened in 1869 and consecrated by the Chief Rabbi Dr Herman Adler in 1871. In 1934 the congregation moved to their Nathan Harris Memorial Hall in Queen's Hill which was converted to a synagogue. In 1997 this synagogue was closed, and the congregation moved to their Prayer House by the Jewish Burial Ground on Risca Road. Within 20 years the congregation had dwindled to a few members able to attend and this too had ceased to hold services.

Sources:
https://westmonmouthschool.com/our-school/school-history/;
"History of our Shul. The First Hundred Years", published by Newport Congregation in 1959;
Oral history interviews with members of the Newport Mon Hebrew Congregation, recorded in 2018 by JHASW.

Depository: Gwent Archives.