Szegő Dóra - Szegő György: Synagogues - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2004)

The Synagogue in Berzeviczy utca

synagogue. The seven arched windows articulating the facade of the nave-and- aisles temple is set in a large, two-storey high stone frame. The wall-spaces in between are covered with diagonal and square brick ornamentation evoking the Palace of the Doge in Venice. On the Eastern side, the gabled middle section is framed between two onion-domed spires. In the semi-circular niche of the middle tympanum is a rosette with the inscriptions in Hebrew and Hungarian, "For my house shall be called a house for prayer for all peoples."

The Western wall with the entrance overlooks the courtyard. Its gabled wall- space is divided into three sections by turret-topped pilaster strips. In the middle section, as on the Eastern wall, is a large rosette with two smaller circular windows on the sides. The rectangular, nave-and-isle interior received its present-day shape during the reconstruction work of 1910—n directed by Lipót Baumhorn. Above the entrance is a gallery with an Angster organ brought here from Kecskemét after it was removed from the synagogue there following the earthquake of 1911. The arrangement is a rarity in Neologue synagogues where the organ, if there is one in the temple, is placed above the Ark. Here, too, Baum■ The bynagogue in Berzeviczy utca

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