{"id":171,"date":"2014-12-03T09:27:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T09:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/?page_id=171"},"modified":"2015-01-25T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2015-01-25T15:42:17","slug":"history-of-the-synagogue","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/liberal\/history-of-the-synagogue\/","title":{"rendered":"History of the Synagogue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1948 a\u00a0few families founded\u00a0Wembley &amp; District Liberal Synagogue\u00a0and established a small welcoming community. Numbers grew rapidly as newcomers enjoyed the benefits of communal Liberal Jewish life. A fundraising campaign purchased the Preston Lawn Tennis Club on Preston Road, Harrow,\u00a0and a\u00a0bid of \u00a31,700 was sufficient to secure five hard courts, a putting green and a small wooden pavilion. At a\u00a0further cost of \u00a31,600 a brick hall with a seating capacity of 200 was built and a warm and welcoming\u00a0community was created \u2013 a place of worship, a centre of learning and a meeting place for members of all ages.\u00a0In 1965 a permanent synagogue was built and a major extension was added in 1978. In 2003 we embarked on a further phase of development, selling\u00a0two-thirds of our site and investing in a new modern two storey\u00a0building on the remaining\u00a0one-third which was completed in 2004. In June 2011 the Preston Road site was sold and HWPS moved to Bessborough Road to share premises with Middlesex New Synagogue where we are very happy co-habitees with our downstairs neighbours<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1948 a\u00a0few families founded\u00a0Wembley &amp; District Liberal Synagogue\u00a0and established a small welcoming community. Numbers grew rapidly as newcomers enjoyed the benefits of communal Liberal Jewish life. A fundraising campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1182,"parent":33,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-noslider-130.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-171","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1422,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions\/1422"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hayleyroosphotography.co.uk\/mosaic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}