Editing Middlesbrough (section)

===Judaism===
[[File:Lugs Lodge Synagogue - geograph.org.uk - 609300.jpg|thumb|The [[synagogue]] in Park Road South, which opened in 1938 and closed in 1998]]
[[Ashkenazi Jews]] started to settle in Middlesbrough from 1862 and formed Middlesbrough Hebrew Congregation in 1870 with a [[synagogue]] in Hill Street. The synagogue moved to Brentnall Street in 1874 and then to a new building in 
Park Road South in 1938.<ref name="JCR">{{Cite web |date=2 January 2017 |title=Middlesbrough Hebrew Congregation & Jewish Community |url=http://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/Community/middel/index.htm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223213920/http://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/Community/middel/index.htm |archive-date=23 February 2017 |access-date=23 February 2017 |website=Jewish Communities & Records}}</ref>

Editions of the ''[[Jewish Year Book]]'' record the growth and decline of Middlesbrough's Jewish population. It was about 100 in 1896–97 and peaked at 750 in 1935. It then declined to 30 in 1998, in which year the synagogue in Park Road South was ceremonially closed.<ref name="JCR" />