Name: Brisbane Synagogue
Time: 1886 - Present
Epoch: Late 19th Century
Category: Cultural Community of Education
Institution Category: Informing
Institution Group: Public Community Education
Coordinates: -27.4733883333333, 153.027
Street Address: Brisbane Synagogue, 98 Margaret Street, Brisbane City
Suburb: Brisbane City (CBD)
Sector: Independent \'Jewish\'
Local Study Area: Spring Hill-CBD-Fortitude Valley-New Farm (Inner City)
Study Stage: MBNH Stage 9 Local Study Areas
From 1865, the Brisbane Hebrew Congregation used a number of venues as temporary places of worship, including Samuel Davis’s ‘Aubigny’ at North Quay. The Margaret Street site was purchased by R. B. Lewin and sold to the congregation for £200. The foundation stone was laid on 7 July 1885.
Geographic Description 1: Inside The Green Belt
Geographic Description 2: Brisbane River
Geographic Description 3: Flood Plains (Major); High River Banks (still floods); Ridgeline (Slopes off Wickham Tce)
Brisbane Synagogue Website Retrieved from on 7 June 2019.
Further research is underway.
Brisbane Synagogue. Photographer: Craig Franklin [https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25549458]
