The Aguda Centre for Children and Families will cater for Orthodox Jews in Higher Broughton in Salford, providing a health clinic, play facilities, welfare rights advice and childcare.
The centre will open in January and builds on work done by local Jewish voluntary group Aguda, which has been providing some Sure Start services in local synagogues.
Michelle Ciffer, manager of the centre, said: "A large part of the population are from the Jewish community and due to their cultural needs they wouldn't access Sure Start services. For example, women won't go to mixed male and female services, they don't want posters about contraception on the walls and they eat kosher food. They just need a different approach."
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