Following the final prayer service, the building in Forty Avenue, acquired by the Dawat-e-Islami, a global Sunni Islam organisation, was handed over and preparations for a conversion into a mosque are underway.
[citation needed] By 1928 there were already a few isolated Jewish families living in Wembley who felt they wanted to get together for the purpose of worship and in order to facilitate Hebrew and Religious Education.
At the end of 1931 membership had risen to 64 and already the feeling for finding a permanent home had prompted the Committee to purchase part of the site of the present synagogue buildings.
On 2 September, the Induction of the Minister and the Consecration of the Synagogue was performed by the then Chief Rabbi of the UK, Joseph H.
A Building Fund had been formed with Sir Isidore Salmon, who was the Member of Parliament for the Harrow West constituency, which then included Wembley, as President.
Membership rapidly increased between then and the outbreak of World War II and further building operations of a temporary character had to be undertaken.
It was felt that one comprehensive scheme should be prepared and building operation commenced on that section which would house the Classes Wing.
After numerous appeals and fund raising efforts, building operations on the new synagogue were commenced in 1956 and the foundation stone was laid on 17 November 1956.
On Sunday 7 December Stephen Glass from Montreal hosted a Voices in Harmony Concert featuring Cantor Gideon Zelermyer and a choir from North America.