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Budapest Synagogue

Description: Fabulously ornate building in central Budapest, with lots to see on a guided tour, including Holocaust memorial ... more

Budapest Synagogue ... gardens, a Jewish Life museum next door, and a WW2 mass grave.

Newest Review: ... will give you the first glimpse of the staff, who, when the discerning party were there (summer 2003) were summer-jobbing students, and while welcoming, were a little clueless about the tour arrangements. Let that not put you off, the pair of guides encountere d were perfectly knowledgeable, and very fluent. The ... more

... English language tours were hourly at peak times, with several other European languages catered for too. Using one of the loaned-out skullcaps, the main religious room was met with suitable awe. And for those of the Jewish persuasion, it will be ...more

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Budapest Synagogue: Oy vey, or something else ridiculously inept. (1190 words)
by - written on 10/10/03 (Very useful, 159 readings)
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For those of you who have yet to travel to Budapest, you will probably neither know nor care that it has, by one reckoning, the largest Synagogue in the world. For those of you who have travelled to Budapest, you must surely agree that you will be back often, and eventually will have covered all the most major tourist sites. There will come one fine day when you will require seeing the insides of this centrally~located religious centre. For it is not just the Synagogue that one can see today, as a potted (and typed, rather than given orally by a local guide) tour will show. Instead there is also the National Collection of Jewish Religion and History, and ... Read the complete review