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Sat 11 Nov 2009Uncertain future for Belfast's Jews
NESTLED BEHIND carefully pruned hedges on Belfast’s resolutely middle-class Somerton Road is an unexpected landmark. In a town where religion and politics have been intertwined stands the synagogue of the Belfast Hebrew Congregation, an unassuming modernist building that is home to a faith community that has been in the city for decades, writes JASON WALSH
Having played a pivotal role in social, political and commercial life throughout the 20th century, it faces an uncertain future, with its population at a low of less than 100, from a peak of 2,500 in the 1960s.
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