Large synagog of Budapest

The Large synagog of Budapest ((in Hungarian: Dohány utcai Zsinagóga/Nagy Zsinagóga, in Hebrew: ביתהכנסהגדולשלבודפשט)) is located in the street Dohány at Budapest. It was built between 1854 and 1859 by the architect Viennese Ludwig Förster in the Moorish style, inspired mainly by the Moslem models of North Africa and Spain (Alhambra), according to a plan of Ludwig Förster, with an interior design due partly to Frigyes Feszl. It is largest of Europe and the second of the world by its dimension after the Emanu-El Temple in New York. With a 75 m length and a width of 27 m, it offers a capacity of 3 000 sitted places and is a center of the Judaism neologist.

During the Second world war, the Ghetto of Budapest was established all around this Synagog.

Franz Liszt and Camille Saint-Saëns played there of the organ.

The synagog of origin was damaged by the party pro-Nazi of the fléchées Croix on February 3rd, 1939 and it was used during the Second world war as bases for Radio allemande and also like stable.

A programme of rebuilding over three years (financed mainly by a donation of 5 million US$ of emigrated the Jewish Hungarian woman Estée Lauder) finished in 1996.

The square in front of the synagog bears the name of Theodor Herzl, which was born in a close house in 1860. The religious and historical collections Jewish are contiguous with the synagog.

The Raoul Wallenberg Emlékpark (park of memory) in the back court shelters the Memorial of the Hungarian Jewish Martyrs at the same time (600 000 Hungarian Jews were assassinated by the Nazis) as a memorial dedicated to Wallenberg and others “Justes among the Nations”, like the Swiss vice-consul Carl Lutz, which during the Second world war saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews.

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Presentation of the Jewish monuments of Budapest by the tourist bureau of Budapest

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