LARGEST - Synagogue in Europe - Budapest, Hungary
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N 47° 29.745 E 019° 03.635
34T E 353926 N 5262080
The largest synagogue in Europe.
Waymark Code: WMB008
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Date Posted: 03/18/2011
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The Great Synagogue, also known as Dohány Street Synagogue (Hungarian: Dohány utcai zsinagóga/nagy zsinagóga) or Tabakgasse Synagogue, is located in Erzsébetváros, the 7th district of Budapest. It is the largest synagogue in Eurasia and the second largest in the world, after the Temple Emanu-El in New York City. It seats 3,000 people and is a centre of Neolog Judaism.
The synagogue is 75m long and 27m wide, and was built between 1854 and 1859 in the Moorish Revival style, with the decoration based chiefly on Islamic models from North Africa and medieval Spain (the Alhambra). The synagogue's Viennese architect, Christian Friedrich Ludwig Förster, believed that no distinctively Jewish architecture could be identified, and thus chose architectural forms that have been used by oriental ethnic groups that are related to the Israelite people, and in particular the Arabs. The interior design is partly by Frigyes Feszl.
Type of documentation of superlative status: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synagogue#World.27s_largest_synagogues
Location of coordinates: 47°29′45″N 19°03′39″E
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