Saatchi Synagogue

The Saatchi Synagogue, also called The Saatchi Shul, is an Orthodox Jewish congregation that worships from a synagogue located at 7/41 Grove End Road, in the City of Westminster, England. The congregation worships in the Ashkenazi rite.^[1]

Saatchi Synagogue
Interior of the St John's Wood synagogue, the meeting place for the Saatchi Synagogue congregation
Religion
Affiliation	Orthodox Judaism
Rite	Nusach Ashkenaz
Ecclesiastical or organisational status	Synagogue
Leadership	Rabbi Mendel Cohen
Status	Active
Location
Location	7/41 Grove End Road, City of Westminster, Central London, England NW89NG
Country	United Kingdom
Location of the synagogue in the City of Westminster
Geographic coordinates	51°32′01″N 0°11′11″W
Architecture
Founder	Charles Saatchi and Maurice Saatchi
Date established	1998 (as a congregation)
Website
saatchishul.org

History

The congregation was founded in 1998 in Maida Vale, London by Charles Saatchi and Maurice Saatchi.^{[2][3][4][5][6]} The first rabbi of the congregation was Pinchas "Pini" Eliezer Dunner.^[7][8][9]

Initially meeting at Andover Place, in Maida Vale, in a part of the building that once formed the Bayswater Synagogue,^[1] the congregation subsequently moved its services to the site of the St John's Wood (United) Synagogue, and in 2018 plans were made to merge the two congregations.^[10]

Rabbi Mendel Cohen has been the rabbinical leader of the congregation since 2010.

See also

• London portal
• Judaism portal

• History of the Jews in England
• List of Jewish communities in the United Kingdom
• List of synagogues in the United Kingdom