First Stop-Memorial Scrolls Trust Museum

We enjoyed a 2 hour private tour of Westminster Synagogue followed by a visit to the Memorial Scrolls Trust Museum. The Synagogue provides a unique combination of the traditional (Conservative) and the progressive (Reform) traditions with over 900 members. Housed in Kent House since 1960 (from 1790-1870, the old mansion was demolished and the present house built where Lady Louisa Ashburton, who was Jewish. Ironically, 20 years later the Jewish Community acquired this house and restored it making it a Synagogue and multiple Jewish libraries or significance and eventually the home of the Memorial Scrolls.Read more