Media Islamic Cultural Fayre

In 2004, BREC partnered with the Crown Persecution Service, Avon and Somerset Constabulary, the Fire Service and the Army in a ‘...

Place Islamic Cultural Fayre

The Bristol Muslim Cultural Society set up the Islamic Cultural Fayre in 1998 as a small family fun day. It has grown into one of the...

Media First book in Bristol to use Arabic letters

Cover page of Charles Fox's translation of Achmed Ardebeili

Place First book in Bristol to use Arabic letters

Joseph Cottle, publisher, bookseller and author, had his shop here. Cottle published many Romantic poets, including Coleridge and...

Media Mayor Joseph Abraham wine and spirits merchant property

Joseph Abraham's obituary, Daily Bristol Times and Mirror, Thursday, January 31st 1867

Media Mayor Joseph Abraham wine and spirits merchant property

Property deed for Cooper's Hall in King Street, bought before Joseph Abraham became Mayor.

Place Mayor Joseph Abraham wine and spirits merchant property

Joseph Abraham became Bristol’s first Jewish Mayor in 1865. His obituary describes him as ‘a able, pleasant, and genial’, and ‘greatly...

Media The Bristol and West Progressive Synagogue

An extract from the Order of Service.

Media The Bristol and West Progressive Synagogue

Cover of the first Order of Service.

Place The Bristol and West Progressive Synagogue

The Progressive Jewish Congregation began as a series of conversations about doctrine and the future held in the homes of the newly...

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