Budapest Orthodox Synagogue
Raw-brick Art Nouveau synagogue with a Hebrew-inscribed facade, stained glass, and a working mikveh.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Budapest Orthodox Synagogue follows a 1910 decision by the Orthodox community to overrule its own design jury and hand the building to brothers Sandor and Bela Loffler, who raised Hungary's only Art Nouveau synagogue in 1912 and 1913. It traces the Hebrew inscription across the facade, the stained glass by master craftsman Miksa Roth, and the damage the building took when this street fell inside the Pest ghetto in 1944. Look for the ritual bath tucked to the side of the complex.
This audio guide was created using AI.
Similar places
Dohány Street Synagogue
Moorish Revival synagogue seating three thousand, with a Holocaust memorial garden and courtyard mass grave from the 1944 ghetto.
Rumbach Street Synagogue
Octagonal Moorish Revival synagogue with a striped facade and an Alhambra-inspired domed sanctuary.
Holocaust Memorial Center
Restored synagogue turned national memorial, its glass courtyard wall laser-engraved with victims' names.
Erzsébetváros
Historic Jewish quarter of narrow streets, grand synagogues, and courtyards reborn as bohemian ruin bars.
Klauzál Market Hall
Restored nineteenth-century iron market hall with a former kosher section, at the heart of a onetime wartime ghetto square.
Párisi Udvar
Ornate covered shopping arcade with a hexagonal stained-glass dome and mosaic floors.