Rumbach Street Synagogue

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| location = Rumbach Sebestyén St. 11-13, Belváros, Budapest

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| country = Hungary

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| architect = Otto Wagner

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| footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://cja.huji.ac.il/mhs/browser.php?mode=set&id=24867 |title=Status Quo (Rumbach St.) Synagogue in Budapest |work=Historic synagogues of Europe |publisher=Foundation for Jewish Heritage and the Center for Jewish Art at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |date=n.d. |access-date=18 July 2024 }}

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The Rumbach Street Synagogue ({{langx|hu|Rumbach utcai zsinagóga}}), also called the Status Quo Ante Synagogue, is a Neológ congregation and synagogue, located in Belváros, the inner city of the historical old town of Pest, in the eastern section of Budapest, Hungary. Since 2021, the building has also been used as a concert hall and Jewish museum.

History

The synagogue was built in 1872 for The Status Quo congregation to the design of Otto Wagner, a Viennese architect.{{Cite book |last=Krinsky |first=Carol |title=Synagogues of Europe |publisher=Dover Publications |location=New York |year=1996 |isbn=0-486-29078-6 |pages=108 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-wUg6rlWS2kC&pg=PA108 |via=Google Books }} Intentionally meant to serve the members of the Neológ community of Pest, its construction coincided with the Schism in Hungarian Jewry of 1869, and it became the home of the more conservative fraction.

Completed in the Moorish Revival style, the synagogue has eight sides and was restored during 2021 with a grant from the Budapest Government. The octagonal, balconied, domed synagogue intricately patterned and painted in Islamic style is exquisitely beautiful. It was built not as an exact replica of, but as an homage to the style of the octagonal, domed Dome of the Rock shrine in Jerusalem.

Historically, but especially since the completion of its renovation in the summer of 2021, the synagogue regularly hosts plays, concerts, photo exhibits and other cultural events.{{cite web |url=https://welovebudapest.com/en/article/2021/6/25/sights-culture-beautifully-restored-rumbach-synagogue-now-home-to-religion-and-culture |title=Beautifully restored Rumbach Synagogue now home to religion and culture |work=We Love Budapest |date=2021-06-25 |access-date= }}

A modern, revamped and restored building was inaugurated in June 2021. The restoration costs included a US$11.2m grant from the Hungarian state.{{cite news |last= |first= |date=10 June 2021 |title=Revamped Rumbach Synagogue Inaugurated – Photos! |url=https://hungarytoday.hu/revamped-rumbach-street-synagogue-inaugurated-jewish-budapest-hungary-photos/ |work=Hungary Today |access-date=21 February 2022}}{{cite news |title=After 60 years of decay Budapest's grand Rumbach synagogue has new lease on life |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-60-years-of-decay-budapests-grand-rumbach-synagogue-has-new-lease-on-life/ |work=The Times of Israel |date=2021 |access-date= }}

Gallery

Rumbach Street Synagogue, Budapest.jpg|Interior

RumbachFotoThalerTamas10.jpg|Façade

000056_tab._53.jpg|Project by Otto Wagner

References

= Bibliography =

{{Cite journal |last=Kalmar |first=Ivan Davidson |year=2001 |title=Moorish Style: Orientalism, the Jews, and Synagogue Architecture |journal=Jewish Social Studies |volume=7 |issue=3 |pages=68–100 |url=http://www.library.utoronto.ca/moorish/publications/moorish.style.pdf |access-date=2008-03-19 |doi=10.2979/JSS.2001.7.3.68|hdl=1807/35319 |s2cid=162229425 |hdl-access=free }}
{{cite book |author=Kaufman, Rachelle |title=An American Jew in Budapest |year=2015 |publisher= |location= |isbn= |pages= }}
{{Cite book |last=Muller |first=Ines |title=Die Otto Wagner-Synagoge in Budapest |publisher=Löcker |location=Wien |year=1992 |isbn=978-3-85409-200-1 |language=de}}
{{Cite journal |last=Szegő |first=György |year=2004 |title=The Gozsdu Court in the Jewish Triangle |journal=The Hungarian Quarterly |volume=XLV |issue=76 |url=http://www.hungarianquarterly.com/no176/11.html |access-date=2008-03-19 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://archive.today/20060529055416/http://www.hungarianquarterly.com/no176/11.html |archive-date=2006-05-29 }}
{{JewishEncyclopedia |article=Budapest |url=http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=1561&letter=B |author1=Deutsch, Gotthard |author1-link=Gotthard Deutsch |author2=Büchler, Alexander |author2-link=Alexander Büchler |publisher= |year= }}
{{cite web |url=http://jewish.hu/view.php?clabel=zsinagogak |work=Jewish.hu |title=The Synagogue Triangle |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522223832/http://jewish.hu/view.php?clabel=zsinagogak |access-date= |archive-date=May 22, 2013 }}