The Szeged Synagogue ( hu, Szegedi zsinagóga) is a synagogue in

Szeged Szeged ( , ; see also other alternative names) is the third largest city of Hungary, the largest city and regional centre of the Southern Great Plain and the county seat of Csongrád-Csanád county. The University of Szeged is one of the m ...

Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...

. It is a 1902 building designed by the Jewish Hungarian architect

Lipót Baumhorn Lipót Baumhorn ( hu, Baumhorn Lipót, german: Leopold Baumhorn, 28 December 1860, Kisbér – 8 July 1932, Kisbér) was a Hungarian architect of Jewish heritage, the most influential Hungarian synagogue architect in the first half of the 20th ...

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'' Hungarian blending of Art Nouveau and

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styles sometimes known as Magyar style.Historism and Art Nouveau in Hungarian architecture around 1900 It served Szeged's large Neolog community. The building's interior, with its tall domed ceiling, draws on multiple historical styles to produce its overall Art Nouveau/

Moorish Revival Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of Romanticist Orientalism. It reached the height of its popularity after the mid-19th centu ...

style. The rib-like wall above the organ has Gothic origins, while the columns supporting the galleries are Roman.Szeged Synagogue
/ref> The interior of the great dome, and all of the building's stained glass, are the work of the artist

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. The design of the

Torah Ark A Torah ark (also known as the ''Heikhal'', or the ''Aron Kodesh'') refers to an ornamental chamber in the synagogue that houses the Torah scrolls. History The ark, also known as the ''ark of law'', or in Hebrew the ''Aron Kodesh'' or ''aron ha- ...

alludes to the Holy of Holies in the

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by using sittimwood from the banks of

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, the wood called for in the building of the

in 1 Kings. The hinges are in the shape of the

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plant, a plant used in the ancient Temple service. The Szeged Synagogue is the second largest in Hungary after the

Dohány Street Synagogue The Dohány Street Synagogue ( hu, Dohány utcai zsinagóga / nagy zsinagóga; he, בית הכנסת הגדול של בודפשט, ''Bet ha-Knesset ha-Gadol shel Budapesht''), also known as the ''Great Synagogue'' or ''Tabakgasse Synagogue'', ...

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, and the 4th largest in the world.Lipot Baumhorn
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References

External links

Szeged Synagogue Website

Leopold Baumhorn on Jewish.hu's list of famous Hungarian Jews
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