Budapest Synagogue

Our first stop, in what is turning into a week in Budapest (it's a long story), was the Budapest Synagogue and Memorial in the Jewish Quarter.

Facade of the Budapest's Dohany St. Synagogue, built 
in mid-19th century, said to be Europe's largest

Interior; a beautiful place, not much defaced by the Germans

The style is Moorish Revival, but with many of the trappings of a Christian 
church...pulpits, organ, etc.

Dome

Vaulting

Definitely Moorish-looking

Silver tree memorial to Hungary's half a million Holocaust victims, in the 
synagogue courtyard; the tree was a gift of the American film actor Tony Curtis, 
whose father was among those murdered

Nearly 500,000 Hungarian Jews were deported and 
murdered in May-June, 1944

In the neighborhood; the philosopher Spinoza actually 
has a cafe named in his honor; he resided in Budapest 
for a time, evidently