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

Competitions for the Designs of a syangogue in Lipótváros, 1898-1906

■ Competitive design by Lipót Baumhom tor a synagogue in Lipótváros, 1899

in stark contrast with the spontaneous, unorganised way in which Terézváros came into being. What emerged around the Quay Market (Roosevelt tér) and the Market Square (Erzsébet tér) was the commercial, administrative and banking centre of Pest-Lipótváros. Besides being populated by wealthy Jewish arrivals from Terézváros, the more fashionable district of Lipótváros was beginning, from the middle of the 19th century, to attract the German-speaking, Jewish haut■ £m<5 Foerk's design for the second competition, 1899

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