Budapest Sights

Great Synagogue

#16 of 641 things to do in Budapest

#478 of 49020 things to do in Europe

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  • Address
    • VII Dohány utca 2-8
  • Transport
    • M2 Astoria
  • Phone
    • 01 413 5500
  • Price
    • adult/student & child 1600/750Ft
  • Hours
    • 10am-6.30pm Mon-Thu, to 2pm Fri, to 5.30pm Sun mid-Apr–Oct, 10am-3pm Mon-Thu, to 2pm Fri, to 4pm Sun Nov–mid-Apr

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Lonely Planet review for Great Synagogue

The Great Synagogue is the largest Jewish house of worship in the world outside New York City and can seat 3000. Built in 1859 according to the designs of Frigyes Feszl, the synagogue contains both Romantic-style and Moorish architectural elements. It was renovated largely with private donations, including a cool US$5 million from fragrance and cosmetics baroness Estée Lauder, in the 1990s.On the synagogue’s north side, the Holocaust Memorial (opposite VII Wesselényi utca 6) stands over the mass graves of those murdered by the Nazis in 1944–45. On the leaves of the metal ‘tree of life’ are the family names of some of the hundreds of thousands of victims.

 

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    beautiful and interesting

    happyglobetrotter recommends this,

    The synagoguem, jewish museum and memorial garden were all very interesting. We went on the most expensive tour, which we found very short in time and on detail. In the jewish museum there are quite a large number of pictures about the Hungarian Holocaust, but little explanation, this part we were told was 'not part of the tour'...which we found very frustrating....as we dont know WHAT we dont know, the pictures of the ghetto would have been so much more informative if they had been put into proper context for us...for instance why the Hungarian Holocauste took place so late in WWII? there was scant information in English (or in any language for that matter) accompanying the very moving photographs. In stark contrast the Museum relating to the buliding of the Synagogue was very informative and interesting. It is just sad that we left the synagogue feeling really no wiser about the true context of the Hungarian holocaust when so many hundreds of thousands perished

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