Obj. ID: 24875
Jewish Architecture Heroes Temple in Budapest, Hungary
The synagogue was built in 1931 near the Dohány Street Synagogue.
It was designed by László Vágó, Lajos Deli, and Ferenc Faragó in Art Deco style. Its purpose was to commemorate 10,000 Jewish soldiers from the prewar territory of the Kingdom of Hungary, who perished in the battlefields of the First World War. Thus, it stood as a reminder to postwar Hungary, which was turning increasingly anti-Semitic, of the loyalty and patriotism of its Jewish citizens.
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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), p. 293-297 with ills, ills. on pp. 244-245;
Rudolf Klein, Zsinagógák Magyarországon, 1782–1918: Fejlődéstörténet, tipológia és jelentőség / Synagogues in Hungary, 1782–1918: Genealogy, Typology and Architectural Significance (Budapest: TERC, 2011), pp. 498-507, ill. 6.67-86;
Szegő, Dóra and György Szegő, Synagogues (Budapest, 2004), pp. 32.
Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, Mapping Jewish Loyalties in Interwar Slovakia (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2015), 109-114.
https://tudastar.mazsihisz.hu/en/the-heroess-temple-budapest-hungary-a-virtual-walk/