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Great (New) Synagogue in Szeged
Object Detail

Building Date
1903-1907

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker

Location
Hungary | Csongrád County | Szeged
| Josika ut. 10

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

The Szeged Synagogue is the second largest in Hungary after the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest, and the 4th largest in the world.


Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

The design of the Torah Ark alludes to the Holy of Holies in the Temple of Solomon by using sittimwood from the banks of Nile, the wood called for in the building of the Temple of Solomon in 1 Kings.


Urban significance

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
B (Fair)

Bibliography

Gerõ, László, Magyarországi zsinagógák (Budapest, 1989);

Gazda, Anikó, Zsinagógák és Zsidó községek Magyarországon (Budapest, 1991);

Rivka and Ben-Zion Dorfman, Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that Built and Used Them (Philadelphia, 2000)., pp. 280-289 with ills & plan, p. 329;

Rudolf Klein, Zsinagógák Magyarországon, 1782–1918: Fejlődéstörténet, tipológia és jelentőség / Synagogues in Hungary, 1782–1918: Genealogy, Typology and Architectural Significance (Budapest: TERC, 2011), ill. 489, 505-521;

http://szegedtourism.szegedvaros.hu/en/new-synagogue/

http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2015/08/09/update-szeged-synagogue-restoration/%E2%80%9D

http://www.jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2016/08/08/hungary-renovation-on-szeged-synagogue-exterior/%E2%80%9D

http://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2017/09/07/hungary-exterior-renovation-of-szeged-synagogue-is-completed

http://www.synagogues360.org/synagogues.php?ident=hungary_002

https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2019/12/12/hungary-szeged/

https://tudastar.mazsihisz.hu/en/cultural-heritage-1/


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Photographer
Photograph Date
2018

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