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Great Neolog (Dohány St.) Synagogue in Budapest
Object Detail

Building Date
1854-1859

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker

Location
Hungary | Budapest
| Dohány St. 2

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

One of two earliest synagogues built in so-called Romantic Historicist style after the revolution of 1848 (cf. the Leopoldstadt Temple in Vienna, by the same architect, not existent). The tripartite scheme of the building alluded to the Solomonic Temple. 


Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography

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

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

Orbán, Ferenc, Magyarország Zsidó emlékei, nevezetességei (Budapest, 1991);

Rivka and Ben-Zion Dorfman, Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that Built and Used Them (Philadelphia, 2000), p. 329;

Kinga Frojimovics, Géza Komoróczy, Viktória Pusztai, Andres Strbik, Jewish Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History (Budapest, 1999), pp.105-113 with ills and plans, ills. on p. 127, 235-236, 288-289-293;

Rudolf Klein, The Great Synagogue of Budapest (Budapest, 2008);

Rudolf Klein, Zsinagógák Magyarországon, 1782–1918: Fejlődéstörténet, tipológia és jelentőség / Synagogues in Hungary, 1782–1918: Genealogy, Typology and Architectural Significance (Budapest: TERC, 2011), ill. 3.376-389, pp. 462-478;

Szegő, Dóra and György Szegő, Synagogues (Budapest, 2004), pp. 25-34.

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2018

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