Museum of Immigration and Diversity

Not to be confused with Migration Museum, London.

The Museum of Immigration and Diversity is a museum at 19 Princelet Street in Spitalfields, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England.^[1][2] The Grade II* listed building in which the museum is located was a house built in 1719 for the Huguenot silk merchant Peter Abraham Ogier.^[3]

19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields, London

The house went through a number of stages, the building was converted to a synagogue in 1869. The building remained in use until the 1970s, when the congregation had moved out of the area. It has now been passed to a charity, The Spitalfields Centre, set up in 1983 to preserve the building and develop the museum of immigration and diversity.^[4]

Due to the fragility of the building, as of 2023^[update] the museum only opens for prebooked group visits.^[5][6] It has been given £30,000 by English Heritage for repairs and is on the Buildings at Risk Register.^[7]

See also

• London portal
• Judaism portal

• History of the Jews in England
• List of former synagogues in the United Kingdom
• Rodinsky's Room, book about the occupant of a room above the synagogue