The Moorish Rumbach Sebestyén utca Synagogue was built in 1872 by Austrian Secessionist architect Otto Wagner for the Status Quo Ante (moderate Conservative) community. The interior decorations are superb and it was getting a long-overdue facelift at the time of research.

Transportation

  • tram: 4, 6
  • metro: M2 Astoria

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1. Holocaust Tree of Life Memorial

0.14 MILES

In the Raul Wallenberg Memorial Garden on the Great Synagogue’s north side, the Holocaust (or Emanuel) Tree of Life Memorial, designed by Imre Varga in…

2. Hungarian Jewish Museum & Archives

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Upstairs in an annexe of the Great Synagogue, this museum contains objects related to religious and everyday life, including 3rd-century Jewish headstones…

3. Great Synagogue

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Budapest's stunning Great Synagogue is the world's largest Jewish house of worship outside New York City. Built in 1859, the synagogue has both Romantic…

4. Orthodox Synagogue

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Once one of a half-dozen synagogues and prayer houses in the Jewish Quarter, the Orthodox Synagogue was built in 1913 in what was at the time a very…

6. Underground Railway Museum

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In the pedestrian subway/underpss below V Deák Ferenc tér, with its entrance within the main ticket office, the small, revamped Underground Railway Museum…

7. Deák tér Lutheran Church

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This very central church on the south side of V Deák Ferenc tér was designed by Mihály Pollack in 1799, It is one of the best examples of early…

8. National Lutheran Museum

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Attached to the Lutheran church, the presbytery, which also functioned as a school (attended at one point by the poet Sándor Petőfi), contains the…

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