The Great Budapest Sinagogue

The Great Budapest Sinagogue - Budapest



The building is 53 meters (174 feet) long and about half as wide. It contains 2,964 seats (1,492 for men and 1,472 in the upper women's galleries), making it the second largest Synagogue in the world after New York City's Temple Emanu-El.
The interior of the synagogue was designed by Frigyes Feszl and is quite colorful and ornate. Strangely, Budapest's Great Synagogue is home to a huge pipe organ, more often found in Christian churches than in Jewish temples. This grand organ contains about 5,000 pipes and was built in 1859. Great composers, such as Franz Liszt and Camille Saint-Saëns, were known to have enjoyed playing this instrument and today it is often used for concerts.

The Great Budapest Sinagogue


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