Ridderkerk
Prior to their forming an independent community of their own in 1863, the Jews of Ridderkerk belonged to the Jewish community at Dordrecht.
Beginning in 1835, Jews in Ridderkerk met to pray in an attic room in a house on the Benedenrijweg. A declining Jewish population and a lack of funds led to the closing of the attic synagogue in 1924.
Synagogue in Ridderkerk, Benedenrijweg 7, 1968
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The building remains standing until this day. The Jewish community at Ridderkerk was dissolved in 1931 and merged anew into the community at Dordrecht.
The Jewish population of Ridderkerk and surroundings:
The size of the Jewish community over time
1809
58
1840
64
1869
60
1899
55
1930
10
