Dohány Street Synagogue
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Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary
Key facts
- Affiliation
- Neolog Judaism
- Rite
- Nusach Ashkenaz
- Ecclesiastical or organisational status
- Synagogue
- Status
- Active
- Location
- Dohány Street , Erzsébetváros (VIIth district), Budapest
- Country
- Hungary
- Architects
- Ludwig Förster (exterior) Frigyes Feszl (interior design)
- Type
- Synagogue architecture
- Style
- Moorish Revival Romantic Historicist
- Groundbreaking
- 1854 ( 1854 )
- Direction of fa ade
- South-west by south
- Capacity
- 2,964 seats
- Length
- 75 m (246 ft)
- Width
- 27 m (89 ft)
- Width nave
- 12 m (39 ft)
- Height max
- 43.6 m (143 ft)
- Dome
- Two
- Materials
- Brick
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- synagogue
- Religion
- Neolog Judaism
- Country
- Hungary
- Located in
- Budapest District VII
- Image
- Synagogue-Budapest.jpg
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- date of official opening
- 1859-09-06
- native label
- Dohány utcai zsinagóga
- Commons category
- Great Synagogue in Dohány Street
- architectural style
- Moorish Revival architecture
- architect
- Ludwig Förster
- inception
- 1854-00-00
- maximum capacity
- 2964
- start time
- 1854-00-00
- main building contractor
- Ignaz Wechselmann
- end time
- 1859-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
The Dohány Street Synagogue ([ˈdoɦaːɲ] DOE-hawng; Hungarian: Dohány utcai zsinagóga; Hebrew: בית הכנסת הגדול של בודפשט, romanized: Bet ha-Knesset ha-Gadol shel Budapesht), also known as the Great Synagogue (Hungarian: Nagy zsinagóga) or Tabakgasse Synagogue (Yiddish: Tabak-Shul), is a Neolog Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Dohány Street in Erzsébetváros (VIIth district) of Budapest, Hungary. It is the largest synagogue in Europe, seating 3,000 people, and is a centre of Neolog Judaism. The congregation worships in the Ashkenazi rite.
The synagogue was built between 1854 and 1859 in the Moorish Revival and Romantic Historicist styles, with the decoration based chiefly on Islamic models from North Africa and medieval Spain (the Alhambra). The synagogue's Viennese architect, Ludwig Förster, believed that no distinctively Jewish architecture could be identified, and thus chose "architectural forms that have been used by oriental ethnic groups that are related to the Israelite people, and in particular the Arabs". The interior design is partly by Frigyes Feszl.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dohány Street Synagogue” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.