Wolfson left in July 2010 to take up another headship and was succeeded by Rabbi Yitzchak Freeman, previously Head at Kisharon.

An organized Jewish community was formally constituted locally in 1929, and included families from what became the Willesden, Cricklewood and Neasden synagogues.

The current synagogue building was commissioned by the growing Dollis Hill Jewish community from Sir Owen Williams.

Owen Williams acted as both architect and engineer for this building project, which, unlike most of the commissions he received in his career, did not have a government body or industrial company as its client.

Brooke states that the synagogue sat 916 people in total: 524 men downstairs and 392 women in the gallery.

For Williams, the site had few of the design challenges he was used to — no industrial processes to accommodate, no difficult city centre location, no long spans, no exceptional heights or other engineering problems.

The hall or sanctuary is the centrepiece of the building and it consists of three bays each 6.1m wide, delineated by the folded planes described.

The hexagonal windows are of stained glass and are themed around the months and festivals of the Jewish year and the Twelve Tribes of Israel.

Although all the designs are different, these windows have colours and other stylistic elements in common that give coherence and a sense of unity to the collection.

Because of the limitations of this technique, unintended horizontal bands appear on the external walls every 1.2m, where the joints between the levels of shuttering were inadequately sealed.

The original community hall, used as the congregation's first permanent home from 1932 or 1933, stood next to the new synagogue building, and was also subsequently modernised around 1952.

To create the school, six classrooms were constructed in the ground floor main sanctuary area, plus offices in the entrance foyer.

This additional floor, which linked the women's galleries down each side, was divided to form two further classrooms, a school hall, and smaller teaching and storage areas.

Many of the original building features were maintained, including the main entrance doors, windows and internal oak panelling.