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

The Synagogue in Frankel Leó út

plot of land. This tension is the source of the impressive spatial effect made on the visitor entering the temple.

In 1993 the synagogue was restored and is now used by the Lubovitcher Hasidic community as their prayer-house.

The historicist brick building with the palatial exterior at 9 Vasvári Pál utca was designed by Ervin Bauer for the painter Károly Kernstok in 1895. Its studio was later used by the fellow-artist István Dési Huber, but the building functioned as another prayer-house for quite some time.

The Synagogue in Frankel Leó út

in i888, Sándor Fellner built another synagogue, too, at 49 Zsigmond (today Frankel Leó) utca, on the spot where a smaller, demolished, prayer-house had stood. The new synagogue was originally surrounded by single-storey houses, the slaughterhouse and the community apartments of the local Jewry. Thus the temple, which stood on its own at the time, looked directly out on the street. In 1928, the U-shaped headquarters-cum-residential-house of the Buda community, was built to plans by Dezső Jakab and Aladár Sós in front of the synagogue.

■ The synagogue in Frankel Leó út, view trom the Danube

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