GENERAL
Jewish Community Records – UK page for Wales
Many links to past and present Jewish communities, resources, publications, sites
A Tumbler about Jewish history and heritage in Wales
MERTHYR TYDFIL
Abandoned neo-Gothic synagogue and Jewish cemetery.
Synagogue
Bryntirion Road
Thomastown
Merthyr Tydfil
The oldest synagogue building in Wales, and a Grade II listed building. A neo-Gothic style style building constructed in the 1870s, it has not been used as a synagogue since the 1980s and now stands empty, with a bare, deteriorating interior. Already in 2009 planning permission had been granted to convert it into flats. There have been recent calls (2017) to turn it into a Welsh Jewish history museum.
Jewish Cemetery
Brecon Road
Cefn Coed, Merthyr Tydfil
Established 1865 and extended in 1935, it has more than 620 burials. The ceremonial hall includes plaques taken from the now closed synagogue.
Cemetery Scribes page with photographs of many of the gravestones