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Hotels near Dohány Street Synagogue

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The Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary is the largest synagogue in all of Europe, and the second largest in the world, second only to the Temple Emanu-El in New York City. The Dohány Street Synagogue seats over 3,000 people, and was built in the mid 1850s in the Moorish revival style, bearing a strong resemblance to other buildings located in Northern Africa and Spain, most notably the iconic Alhambra. Next door to the Synagogue is the birthplace of Theodore Herzl, father of modern political Zionism, which has been turned into Budapest’s Jewish Museum. The present building was erected to match the synagogue in style, and was attached to the synagogue in the early 1930s. The Dohány Street Synagogue was officially consecrated in 1859, and was in continuous use until destroyed by the pro-Nazi Arro Cross Party in 1939. The Dohány Street Synagogue building went on to suffer more damage during WWII, the Nazi Occupation, and during the battle for the liberation of Budapest. Restorations weren’t begun until the early 1990s. The complex has expanded over the years to include not only the synagogue and museum, but the Heroe’s Temple, a cemetery, and Holocaust memorial as well. The entire complex of Dohány Street Synagogue adjoins the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Park, which contains the world famous Memorial of the Hungarian Jewish Martyrs, constructed in the shape of a weeping willow whose leaves bear the names of the murdered Jews of Budapest.

Written on 03/23/09 by Anonymous

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