From well before the First World War some of the wealthier members of the Great Synagogue began to live in Chapeltown (a model suburb previously known as New Leeds), so that by the end of the war there were sufficient numbers to want to open a synagogue in the district. Sim Lubelski and Morris Silman were two of the prime movers in effecting this, and a site was purchased in Louis Street with a Mr. Glass appointed as architect. The synagogue opened in September 1922 with Rev. Jacob Samuel as the reader. It became incorporated in the United Hebrew congregation when it was formed in 1930/31 and vacated the building to join with the New Synagogue when it opened in 1932. In the following year the building was sold to the Polisher Synagogue for 4,000.
Courtesy: Murray Freedman, UHC 150th Anniversary Brochure