Tag: Ponovez Synagogue

• History of Ferreira’s Dorp (or Ferreira’s Town)

  

  Ferreira’s Dorp or Ferreira’s Town (or both one-word variations) is an area in the south-western part of the originally laid out township of Johannesburg. It borders Marshalltown, Newtown, and Westgate. It predates the birth of Johannesburg by several months and holds the early history of Africans, Chinese, Jewish, and Indian communities in the mining town…

  Marc Latilla

  September 24, 2020

  Johannesburg

  African History, Anglo American, Beth Hamadrash Fox Street, Cantonese Club, Chinese History, Commissioner Street, Ebeneezeer Church, Ferreira’s Camp, Ferreira’s Dorp, Ferreira’s Town, Forty Five Main Street, Forty Four Main Street, Fox Street, Ignatius Ferreira, Indian History, Jewish history, John Vorster Square, Magistrates Court, Ponovez Synagogue, Reunert and Lenz, St. Albans Mission church, Wesleyan Church, West Anderson Building

• Lost churches of early Johannesburg

  

  This is part one of a piece on lost churches in early Johannesburg. Part two will focus on old churches that are still standing but no longer used as originally intended (and a few that are, but only the old ones up to the 1950s…). For continuity, I have included the existing version of a…

  Marc Latilla

  June 16, 2015

  Johannesburg

  African Methodist Episcopal Church, Apostolic Faith Mission SA, Baptist church, Beit Street, Braamfontein, Catholic churches, Chassidic Synagogue, churches, Doornfontein, Dutch Reform Church, Early Johannesburg, Ebenezer church, Eloff Street, Fordsburg, Harrow Road, Jewish history, Maronite, mosques, native missions, Ponovez Synagogue, Presbyterian church, Rev. Darragh, Rosebank Union Church, Sivewright Avenue, synagogues, Talmud Torah Synagogue, Wesleyan

• Doornfontein Pt.1 (Lion’s Shul & Bettelheim Mansion)

  

  The reason this Doornfontein post has been delayed is that I keep finding new stuff. As a result there will be a few parts to this section. The Saratoga & Windybrow posts were the start. Doornfontein was a popular early sanctuary for the well-off …

  Marc Latilla

  April 27, 2011

  Johannesburg

  Beit Street, Beth Hamadrash Hagadol, Bettelheim’s Mansion, Buxton Street, Davies Street, Doornfontein, Lions Shul, Mitchell’s Building, Moseley Street, Obel & Obel, Percy Rogers Cooke, Pierce Street, Ponovez Synagogue, Queen Victoria Hospital, Rockey Street, Saul Margo, Siemert Road, Sivewright Avenue, Talmud Torah Synagogue