The synagogue building, designed by Blackpool alderman and justice of the peace Robert Butcher Mather in the Byzantine Revival style, is Grade II listed[1] It was built between 1916 and 1926 and was later altered in 1955 and 1976.

The visit was arranged by Eric Moonman, the president of the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

The synagogue was packed for the occasion with many former members and children and grandchildren of congregants from previous years attending.

The last Minister of the synagogue was Rabbi David Braunold who assumed the pulpit in 1985 and departed for the St Anne's Hebrew Congregation in 2010.

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