Miskolc Synagogue

The synagogue, built between 1861 and 1863, is one of the outstanding works of Hungarian romantic architecture. It was designed by Ludwig Förster, who also designed the Dohány Street synagogue in Pest.

The Miskolc synagogue is the largest in the region. largest living, working church building.

The neo-Romanesque-Moresque church, with its eastern facade facing Kazinczy Street, was designed by Ludwig Förster (1797-1863), a Viennese architect known as the designer of the Dohány Street synagogue in Pest. The construction work took place between 1856-63. Its close relative is the Vienna-Leopoldstadt Synagogue, also known as a work by Förster.

The three-nave, sub-basilic layout is also noticeable from the outside of the building: on the main facade, the central prism, closed by a low-sloping pediment, rises above the side aisles. The walls at the level of the galleries - with the exception of the four-bay window above the main entrance - are pierced by triple windows, and on the side facades by twin windows. On the eastern and western main facades, 1-1 mortise-style, arabesque rose windows open. The facades are closed by arched cornices. The interior is decorated with carvings. Cast iron pillars divide it into wider main and narrower side naves, which are covered by 3-3 Bohemian vaults between also iron front arches.

Between the pillars, above the vestibule and in the side naves, there were women's galleries supported by iron columns. The interior has a columned, eclectic lectern and prayer pulpit, surrounded by a wrought-iron railing in the middle, and a bimah (Torah reading table) with candelabras in the corner. The intricate, oriental ornamentation of the wall paintings is the work of M. Horowitz. The main entrance and the gate wings of the staircases feature variegated, leafy neo-Romanesque ironwork.