Oxford Shul

The Oxford Shul is an Orthodox Jewish congregation and synagogue, located in Riviera, near the suburbs of Saxonwold, Houghton and Killarney, in Johannesburg, in the region of Gauteng, South Africa.

In 1945 the first High Festival Services were held in the large Tudor House, by then partly converted into a small synagogue accommodating 400 congregants.

In 1954 an extra 0.81 ha (2 acres) of land adjacent to the synagogue property and facing Riviera Road were purchased, and the present nursery school and the double-storey education block opened.

Many of the older members of the congregation lived in neighbouring Killarney, with several residing in the Art Deco building, Daventry Court, now a heritage landmark.

[5] The congregation approached Joseph B. Soloveitchik to recommend one of his students from Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary to lead the synagogue.