The Great Synagogue In Dohany street, #Budapest

The #synagogue on the Dohany street of Pest is not only the most impressive one in the country, but it's the largest synagogue of Europe, the second largest one in the world. (The largest Jewish house of worship in the world is the Temple Emanu-El in New York).

The temple gets its purple shades from light entering through the vitrage (Click on the image to watch fullsize)

In hebrew the color purple is called "sagol", which has its roots shared with the word "segola", and it stands for virtue.

This recently restored, magnificent, twin-towered building celebrated 150 years of existence in 2009. Let it take your breath away with its beautiful interior, see why it is among the top ten sights of Budapest.

The second largest synagogue of the world located in downtown Budapest had to be constructed on an asymmetric lot in order to place the Ark looking East.

Frigyes Feszl and Ludwig F�rster created their masterpiece in the middle of a metropolis using the Oriental-Byzantine (Moorish) style influenced by Moslem architecture. The consecration of the synagogue was a major event on September 6, 1859.

It can hold 3000 seated and approximately 2000 standing people. Major events took and take place here, like the celebrations part of the 1000th anniversary of the Hungarian Conquest in May 1896, memorial services for important Hungarian personalities in the 19th century, liturgical, organ or Klezmer concerts nowadays.

The Dohany Synagogue remained the most important religious centre of the Neolog Jews in Hungary to this day.

(source: Great Synagogue Website)

Tree of Life Memorial, designed by Imre Varga in 1991

The memorial stands over the mass graves of those murdered by the Nazis in 1944–45. On the leaves of the metal tree are inscribed the family names of some of the hundreds of thousands of victims.

(source: Lonely Planet)

burial place of nearly 2600 Jewish people who perished during the Holocaust

The memory of the Holocaust is strongly connected to the old Jewish quarter where the Synagogue is situated. Dohány Street constituted the border to the ghetto during World War II. The area which was planned as a garden is the burial place of nearly 2600 Jewish people who perished during the Holocaust.

(source: Jewish Tour Hungary)

If you'd like to visit

There is much more to see and learn from an actual tour,
And this place looks so much more impressive in real life
(so you should 😉)

The Synagogue can be visited during weekdays. It is closed on Saturdays and for Jewish holidays.