 From his arrival in England until his death in 1880 the Anglo-Jewish composer of synagogue music Julius Mombach was associated with the Great Synagogue.He arrived in 1827 as "meshorrer" (choirboy) and eventually became the Synagogue's choir master.In 1819 an aquatint of the interior was drawn by Augustus Charles Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson, and originally published in the popular illustrated magazine of the period, "Ackermann's Repository of Arts".