Sandy’s Row runs along the City of London boundary.
Sandy’s Row formed the northern continuation of Middlesex Street, and by the middle of the 19th century extended further south as far as Harrow Alley. It was probably named after the landowner or a builder.
The first mention of the road as Sandy’s Row dates from around 1800 though like Middlesex Street it had been part of ’Petticoat Lane’ before that. The thoroughfare has 16th century origins as the northern end of Hog Lane, later Petticoat Lane. Renamed in the 1840s it survived when the rest of the road was remade as Middlesex Street.
Sandy’s Row Synagogue is the last functioning Ashkenazi synagogue in Spitalfields, situated at the heart of the former Jewish East End. Dutch Jewish migrants established the synagogue in 1854. Most of these Jews settled in a small quarter of narrow Spitalfields streets known as the Tenterground. They continued to practise the trades they had bought with them from the Netherlands - predominately cigar making, diamond cutting and polishing. Many small workshops were established.