The beautiful central synagogue on Dohany Street was, and remains, the largest on the continent. By the time the war started, many of Budapest’s most talented minds had fled abroad.

Discover the Dohány Street Synagogue, a monumental house of worship in Budapest, blending Moorish design and European heritage, and a powerful symbol of resilience.

The Dohany Street Synagogue also known as the Great Synagogue or Tabakgasse Synagogue, Budapest. The Jewish Community of Budapest was invaded and looted by the Nazis in 1944, and finally got one ...

The Kazinczy Street Synagogue is also famous for hosting the annual Jewish Cultural Festival, which attracts visitors from all over Hungary and beyond. Budapest is a city of beautiful buildings and ...

Located at one of the city’s busiest intersections, Corvin Palace is close to central attractions such as the Hungarian National Museum and Dohany Street Synagogue - the largest in Europe.

Holocaust survivor Elizabeth Sandy. Photo by Linda Chase “I was born May 19th, 1923 in Budapest, Hungary. My father’s name was Arnold Garbovits and my mother was Karolin Drach. Both my parents ...

The grand houses of worship like the vibrantly striped Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary may have signified that Jews were reclaiming the view that they were “others” by playing to ...

A Danube River cruise ship passes the Parliament Building in Budapest, Hungary. A Holocaust memorial tree in the Raoul Wallenberg Park at the Dohany Street Synagogue in Budapest was paid for by ...

Near a bike stand outside the Dohany Street Synagogue (background on right), this bronze relief depicts Hungarian Jew Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism.

One of the most ornate synagogues in the world, the Dohány Street Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary, is a beautiful capsule of all these various threads and facets of Jewish history.