Friday, July 06, 2007

Old Jewish Quarter

Last weekend I took the old Jewish Quarter walk- which started at Tower Hill and went through Whitechapel and Spitalfields. We went inside the Bevis Marks Synagogue- it's been there since the early 1700s. They were setting up for a wedding, but no pictures were allowed inside.

Side View of Bevis Marks
Front Entrance
Entrance to Spitalfields market near Liverpool Street
Once a Methodist Chapel, then a Synagogue, now a Mosque for the Bangeldeshi community in Spitalfields
Sign near Tower Hill
A former soup kitchen-now luxury apartments
Street view in Spitalfields

Another street view