Faurest, Kristin: Ten spaces - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2010)

Teleki László tér

■ It'd hard to imagine wartime ihortages when viiiting the Teleki market now

to this part of the city in the mid 19th century, mostly from Galicia as well as from nearby Óbuda, and the poor peddlers among them came to the Teleki area and settled there. Following the first wave of settlers came the more insular Hasidic communities from the Eastern Carpathian mountains. Many of them found their place in the so-called Peddlers' house, a tenement complex found nearby at Lujza utca 16, Dobozi utca 19 and Magdolna utca 40, 42-44 and 46. Keeping with the traditions of the time, many Jews worshipped in small, cloistered prayer houses, which encircled the square. At Lujza utca 8 was the Polish synagogue, while other prayer rooms were at Teleki tér i and 5, Dobozi utca 7—9 and Erdélyi utca 19 and others.

The square’s history is less defined by its role as a green space or public garden than as a hive of commerce, and things haven’t changed much. It's surrounded by residential buildings and several abandoned storefronts,

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