Szegő Dóra - Szegő György: Synagogues - Our Budapest (Budapest, 2004)
The Kazinczy utca Synagogue
his name in Újpest today. Since the annexation of Újpest to Budapest and the construction of the housing estates here, the thousand-seat synagogue is filled to capacity on Jewish holidays despite the almost complete destruction of the former community. The temple was reconstructed in the 1970s. The enlarged three- storey building of the adjacent cultural centre has been converted into the nursing home of the Budapest community. The Kazinczy utca Synagogue Constructed four decades after the Rombach in 1912—13, the Kazinczy utca synagogue was still built in opposition to the liturgy of the Dohány utca temple. The complex of plots where it was built belonged to the Autonomous Orthodox Israelite Community of Pest. The strictly traditionalist Orthodox Jewish community of the capital meant to line up this temple against the representative and emblematic central buildings of the Dohány utca Neologue and the Rumbach utca itatui quo ante communities. The architects did more than they were ■ The iynagogue in Kazinczy utca 6l
