A short walk along the Inner Ring Road brings you to Dohany utca and Europe's largest working synagogue.
The first Jewish merchants settled in Buda in the middle of the thirteenth century. In the eighteenth century a Jewish community, along with craftshops and workshops, was established in Obuda. A gradual migration into Pest started: a few years later and in the mid-nineteenth century the period's largest synagogue was built to a Romantic-Moorish design on the edge of the new Jewish quarter.
It can seat three thousand people, and features cast iron columns and arches which at the time of its construction were very much a new innovation.
Concerts are regularly held in the Synagogue, and the adjacent building houses the world renowned National Jewish Museum.
This covers the history of Hungarian Jewry, has displays of ritual artefacts and everyday objects, and commemorates the Holocaust. There are kosher shops and restaurants in the neighbourhood.
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