Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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230 SIGHTSEEING and assembled on the spot.The adjoining building used to house the Lutheran school. The Synagogue was built nearby in Eötvös Street between 1861-1864 for the Neolog Jewish Community. It was made by the design of a local builder of Italian origin called Alois Cacciari in Latinic Romantic style. It is a single-aisled barrelvaulted building with its gallery underpinned by cast-iron columns with palmettes on the necking of the capital. The facade is divided by octagonal pillars and decorated with a latticed rose window. The inscription on the marble tablet above the front door is from the Third Book of Moses: Tear my Sanctuary".The double stone tablet of Moses is the closing element on the fagade at 11 metres high. The reconstructions inside have not been finished yet, but the building is planned The former wall-paintings of the Synagogue Memorial plaque on the wall of the nursery school in Eötvös Street to host both cultural and religious programmes in the future. The reorganized Jewish Congregation have a prayer house in the Neolog Cemetery near the road leading to Deákvár. The Orthodox Cemetery is in Kisvác (Hóvirág Street). The grave of the miraculous rabbi, David Silberstein, is a place of Jewish pilgrimage. The Jewish Congregation of Vác provide services and offer programmes for people participating in religious tourism. The reconstructed building of the Synagogue The inside of the Synagogue St Roch (Rókus) Chapel is near the Railway Station surrounded by 20th century buildings. It was built in memory of the plague epidemic in 1740-41, which killed one-tenth of the population of the town. The construction was mainly financed by the public and supported by Bishop Károly Mihály Althann. The chapel was dedicated to St Roch, who had recovered from the plague. The feast day of the chapel is 16 August dedicated to keep epidemics away from the town. The quatrefoil building is covered with a low dome, the gate is a wrought-iron work of the age. Inside there are altars dedicated to St Anne, Jesus Christ curing the sick and St Roch respectively. Each altar is decorated with two wooden sculptures. The wall painting above the altar of St Roch depicts the hound that took bread to Roch who had caught the st Roch Chapel plague. For lack of burial places in the cathedral, consecrated
