Religious Sites
The Carmelite Monastery was established in Bridge Lane in 1908 and sold in 2007. St. Edward the Confessor, a Roman Catholic church, was built in 1915 and consecrated in 1931. Golders Green Synagogue opened in Dunstan Road in 1922. The Golders Green Beth Hamedrash opened in Golders Green in 1935, moving to The Riding in 1956. The Machzike Hadath Synagogue moved to Golders Green in the 1970s, opening its present building in 1983. In about 1960 the Eastern Jewish Community established the Ohel David Eastern Synagogue at the Lincoln Institute, the former site of the Golders Green Beth Hamedrash. There are also a large Hindu temple, a Greek Orthodox cathedral, and a Coptic Orthodox church.
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