The Progressive Jewish Congregation began as a series of conversations about doctrine and the future held in the homes of the newly formed congregation. In 1975, they were able to buy a disused building on Bannerman Road, which had been a potato store and a cafe. Members of the congregation did most of the building work themselves, and the synagogue was consecrated on the 9th of February.
The yynagogue houses a Czech Torah Scroll that was found by an English Jewish businessmanin basement after the liberation of Czechoslovakia. The scroll had been desecrated by the Nazis. With too few Jews left in Czechoslovakia to restore the scroll, it was brought to England, and donated in the 1950s to the Congregation, some of whom were themselves Holocaust Survivors.
