Budapest - Pest Synagogue and Jewish Museum Zsidó Múzeum

At the beginning of Dohány utca, stands the Pest Synagogue, built between 1854 and 1859 to the plans of the Viennese architect Ludwig Förster. The romanticized Moorish-Byzantine style of this three-aisled temple is very pleasing to the eye; Frigyes Feszl was responsible for the fine interior.

The Jewish Museum (Orságos Zsidó Vallási és Történeti Gyüjtemény) is housed in an annex of the synagogue. In 1944/45 the garden, surrounded by arcades, was made into a cemetery for the victims of the Budapest ghetto.