Dohány Street Synagogue, Budapest
The Dohány Street Synagogue, also known as the Great Synagogue, is the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in world. It is actually a complex consisting of the Great Synagogue, the Jewish Museum, Heroes’ Temple, a graveyard, and the Raoul Wallenberg Emlékpark, also known the Holocaust Memorial Park. We visited all of these, but I will start by describing the Great Synagogue. After the destruction of the temple of Jerusalem, synagogues became a center of Jewish religious life. A…