Manchester Jewish Museum
The Manchester Jewish Museum is a Jewish history museum, located on Cheetham Hill Road in Manchester, England. The museum occupies the site of a former Orthodox Jewish synagogue, the place of worship for the Congregation of Spanish & Portuguese Jews, called the Spanish & Portuguese Synagogue, also the Sha'are Tephillah Synagogue.Photo: Richerman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in Manchester, England, United Kingdom
- Address: 190 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester, M8 8LW
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Manchester Arena and Manchester Victoria.
Manchester Arena
Stadium
Photo: Rob Sinclair, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Manchester Arena is an indoor arena in Manchester, England, immediately north of the city centre and partly above Manchester Victoria railway station in air rights space. Manchester Arena is situated 3,100 feet southwest of Manchester Jewish Museum.
Manchester Victoria
Railway station
Photo: Paul Hermans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Manchester Victoria in Manchester, England, is a combined main line railway station and Metrolink tram stop. Situated to the north of the city centre on Hunts Bank, close to Manchester Cathedral, it adjoins Manchester Arena which was constructed on part of the former station site in the 1990s. Manchester Victoria is situated 3,000 feet south of Manchester Jewish Museum.
Chetham’s Library
Library
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chetham's Library in Manchester, England, is the oldest free public reference library in the English-speaking world. Chetham's Hospital, which contains both the library and Chetham's School of Music, was established in 1653 under the will of Humphrey Chetham, for the education of "the sons of honest, industrious and painful parents", and a library for the use of scholars. Chetham’s Library is situated 3,600 feet south of Manchester Jewish Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Strangeways and Green Quarter.
Strangeways
Suburb
Photo: Neil Theasby, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Strangeways is an area of inner north Manchester, England, around Strangeways Prison just north of the city centre.
Green Quarter
Neighborhood
The Green Quarter is an area of Manchester, England, just north of the city centre between Cheetham, Strangeways and the River Irk. From the mid-nineteenth century, the area, then known as Red Bank, was a slum housing impoverished Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe, but is now home to digital start-ups and e-commerce businesses, new apartments, microbreweries, gin distilleries and restaurants.
Cheetham, Manchester
Suburb
Cheetham is an inner-city area and electoral ward of Manchester, England, which in 2011 had a population of 22,562. It lies on the west bank of the River Irk, 1.4 miles north of Manchester city centre, close to the boundary with Salford, bounded by Crumpsall to the north, Broughton to the west, Harpurhey to the east, and Piccadilly and Deansgate to the south.
Manchester Jewish Museum
- Categories: independent museum, synagogue, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Manchester, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.49572° or 53° 29′ 45″ northLongitude
-2.23813° or 2° 14′ 17″ westOpen location code
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tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q6747441
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Manchester Jewish Museum” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Museu Jueu de Manchester”
- Chinese: “曼彻斯特犹太博物馆”
- Esperanto: “Manĉestra Juda Muzeo”
- French: “musée juif de Manchester”
- French: “Musée juif de Manchester”
- Greek: “Εβραϊκό Μουσείο του Μάντσεστερ”
- Hebrew: “המוזיאון היהודי במנצ’סטר”
- Italian: “Museo ebraico di Manchester”
- Italian: “Sinagoga spagnola-portoghese di Manchester / Museo ebraico di Manchester”
- Russian: “Манчестерский еврейский музей”
- Spanish: “Museo judío de Manchester”
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