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Status Quo (Rumbach St.) Synagogue in Budapest
Object Detail

Building Date
1872

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates
the late 1980s/early 1990s, 2017-2021

Architect/ Maker

Location
Hungary | Budapest
| Rumbach Sebestyén St. 11-13

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Brick

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

The synagogue was erected in 1872 by the then-emerging Viennese architect Otto Wagner for the Status Quo Ante community of the Hungarian capital. It was constructed in the prevailing Neo-Moorish style characteristic of Ludwig Förster’s guidelines and features a prayer hall based on an octagonal footprint. In 2021, the synagogue was open to the public. It serves as a synagogue, museum, and concert hall. 


Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

Present Usage Details
concert hall, museum, synagogue

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance

Significance Rating
4 (International)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography

Szegő, Dóra and György Szegő, Synagogues (Budapest, 2004), pp. 36-42;

http://www.zsinagogak.hu/index.php/rumbach-sebestyen-utca/

http://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2018/03/23/rumbach-st-synagogue-restoration-full-blast

http://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2018/11/20/hungary-scaffolding-down-at-rumbach-st-synagogue/

https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2019/12/10/update-see-the-rumbach/

 


Dorfman, Rivka and Ben-Zion. Synagogues without Jews and the Communities that Built and Used Them (Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 2000), p. 329.

Frojimovics, Kinga, Geza Komoroczy, Viktoria Pusztai and Andrea Strbik. Jewish Budapest: Monuments, Rites, History (Budapest: Central European University Press, 1999). , p. 105, 132-146 with ills. and plan, ills. on p. 237.

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

Gerõ, László, Magyarországi zsinagógák (Budapest, 1989)

"Hungary — Rumbach st synagogue officially reopens this week after award-winning, €10 million restoration,"
Jewish Heritage Europe, https://jewish-heritage-europe.eu/2021/06/09/update-hungary-rumbach-st-synagogue-reopening/.

Klein, Rudolf. Zsinagógák Magyarországon, 1782–1918: Fejlődéstörténet, tipológia és jelentőség (Budapest: TERC, 2011), ills. 3.473, 3.613, pp. 478-486.

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

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Photographer
Photograph Date
2024

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