Britain’s oldest synagogue, the Grade I-listed Bevis Marks in the City of London, has been awarded £221,100 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
The grant will cover two-thirds of the initial planning costs of a scheme to secure the site’s future as a living synagogue, which is projected to run to £4.6 million.
The S & P Sephardi Community hopes the HLF will commit to meet two-thirds of the project cost in spring 2019.
Alison Rosen, chief executive of the S&P, said: “Bevis Marks has been both a religious centre and heritage site for over 300 years. With this grant we hope to be able to both preserve and increase its presence and functionality for another century and more.”
