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Dohány Street Synagogue, Budapest

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…

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