{"id":2760,"date":"2021-06-29T19:22:37","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T18:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/?page_id=2760"},"modified":"2021-06-29T19:27:56","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T18:27:56","slug":"other-places-of-worship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/?page_id=2760","title":{"rendered":"Other places of worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>South East London Synagogue<\/h5>\n<p>Between 1889 and 1905 this was located in a temporary iron structure at Lausanne Road, Peckham. Services had initially begun in a house at 452 New Cross Road in 1888, and then moved to two rooms in Nettleton Road, New Cross.<\/p>\n<p>Plans for construction of a purpose-built synagogue and classrooms were discussed in 1896.<\/p>\n<p>In March 1905 it moved to New Cross Road. After bombing in December 1940 a new synagogue was built in 1956. It closed in 1985 and the building became the Jehovah&#8217;s Witnesses Kingdom Hall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Peckham Mosque<\/h5>\n<p>The first mosque in Peckham was at 51 Fenwick Road, the home of\u00a0 Khalid Sheldrake. Born Bertie William Sheldrake, (1888\u20131947), he was a pickle manufacturer who converted to Islam in 1903. From about 1905 he began conducting prayers at his house in Peckham, and also held several well-attended open-air meetings on Peckham Rye.<\/p>\n<p>Sheldrake was hon. president of the Western Islamic Association and supported the construction of the first purpose-built mosque in London which opened on 23 October 1926 in Southfields, Wandsworth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South East London Synagogue Between 1889 and 1905 this was located in a temporary iron structure at Lausanne Road, Peckham. Services had initially begun in a house at 452 New Cross Road in 1888, and then moved to two rooms in Nettleton Road, New Cross. Plans for construction of a purpose-built synagogue and classrooms were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":514,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2760"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2760\/revisions\/2770"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peckhamsociety.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}