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Obj. ID: 24873
Jewish Architecture
  Small Medieval synagogue in Buda, Budapest, Hungary

© Center for Jewish Art, Photographer: Levin, Vladimir, 2018

The small medieval synagogue in Buda presumably existed in the fourteenth century and was later included in the structure of a dwelling house. The original layout of the synagogue is not clear. The preserved wall paintings include a Star of David inscribed with the text of the priestly benediction pronounced by the cohanim when they bless the worshippers, and a bow and arrow, inscribed with the Prayer of Hannah.

Currently the synagogue is a museum. It also houses a lapidarium with Jewish tombstones from the medieval and Ottoman periods (thirteenth to seventeenth centuries).

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Name/Title
Small Medieval synagogue in Buda, Budapest | Unknown
Object Detail
Monument Setting
Unknown
Date
Late 14th century?
Synagogue active dates
Reconstruction dates
found in 1964
Artist/ Maker
Unknown
Historical Origin
Unknown
Community type
Congregation
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Location
Hungary | Budapest | Buda
| Táncsics Mihály St. 26
Site
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Material Cloth
Material Lining
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Condition
Extant
Documented by CJA
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Architectural Significance type
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Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore
Historical significance: Person
Architectural Significance: Style
Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration
Urban significance
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0
Ornamentation
Custom
Contents
Codicology
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Number of Lines
Ruling
Pricking
Quires
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Blank Leaves
Direction/Location
Façade (main)
Endivances
Location of Torah Ark
Location of Apse
Location of Niche
Location of Reader's Desk
Location of Platform
Temp: Architecture Axis
Arrangement of Seats
Location of Women's Section
Direction Prayer
Direction Toward Jerusalem
Coin
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Signature
Colophon
Scribal Notes
Watermark
Hallmark
Group
Group
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Trade Mark
Binding
Decoration Program
Suggested Reconsdivuction
History/Provenance
Main Surveys & Excavations
Sources
Gerõ, László, Magyarországi zsinagógák (Budapest, 1989); Gazda, Anikó, Zsinagógák és Zsidó községek Magyarországon (Budapest, 1991); Orbán, Ferenc, Magyarország Zsidó emlékei, nevezetességei (Budapest, 1991); Kinga Frojimovics, Géza Komoróczy, Viktória Pusztai, Andres Strbik, Jewish Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History (Budapest, 1999), pp. 7, 35 with ill., ill. on p. 229; Rudolf Klein, Zsinagógák Magyarországon, 1782–1918: Fejlődéstörténet, tipológia és jelentőség / Synagogues in Hungary, 1782–1918: Genealogy, Typology and Architectural Significance (Budapest: TERC, 2011), ill. 5.11-12; Szegő, Dóra and György Szegő, Synagogues (Budapest, 2004), pp. 8-16. Paulus, Simon. Die Architektur der Synagoge im Mittelalter: Überlieferung und Bestand. Petersberg: Imhof, 2007, pp. 410-413.
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Donor
Keller Foundation | 2018
Negative/Photo. No.
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