The Central Synagogue, Hungary

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Description: Budapest's Central Synagogue is the largest in Europe, capable of holding 3000 worshippers, and a part of a complex of buildings which includes the birthplace of Theodor Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement. It is also a spectacular example of the Byzantine Moorish style of synagogue architecture favoured in the 1850s, sporting onion domes, crenellations and geometric friezes. The synagogue building also holds the National Jewish Museum. Here, torahs and other Judaica dating back to the Middle Ages, along with examples of the Jewish cultural florescence of the nineteenth century, are opposed by a harrowing Holocaust exibit, the memory of which casts a chill over the third section, portraying Jewish cultural life today. In the courtyard is a weeping-willow shaped memorial to the dead of the ghetto, each leaf bearing the names of families massacred by the Nazis. Address: 1071 Budapest, Dohány utca 2. Directions: Between Deák F. tér and Astoria along Little Circle Road. Metro stations Deák F. tér (M1,2,3) or Astoria (M2). Tram stop Astoria (#47, 49), bus stop Deák F. tér (#4) or Astoria (#7, 7A, 9, 78).

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