Bevis Marks Museum Photographs

Images from the Permanent Display at Bevis Marks 

-Evan Millner , 1997

This page contains a selection of images from the permanent display at the Synagogue. These photographs,documents and paintings are to be found in the Synagogue Hall, 4 Heneage Lane.

A detail of the face of Aaron the Kohen, from a painting in the possession of the Congregation.

  

 This painting reputedly stood above the hechal in the original synagogue in Creechurch Lane, as Moses and Aaron act in it as heraldic supporters of the two tablets of the Law. The artist was Aaron de Chavez, a member of the congregation. The work is dated 1674.

 

"Anochi", The first word of the 10 commandments from this painting.

Rev. Joseph Gomes de Mesquita, who had been choirmaster of the Snoga of Amsterdam,began to work for the congregation in 1914, until his retirement in 1948.

Reverend de Sola Pool

Reverend Nunes Vaz

Memorial tablet inscribed in memory of Haham Benjamin Artom, the Spiritual Leader of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews.

He arrived in London from Naples in 1866. He passed away unexpectedly on 6 January 1879, after a few hour's illness while visiting Brighton.

Detail view of a map dated 1756, showing the site of the "Jews' Synagogue" in the Plough Yard off Bevis Marks.

 Heneage Lane is clearly visible. The demarcation of the City Wall can be clearly seen, which ran along what is now Houndsditch. The synagogue is located within the Ward of Aldgate.