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The Great Synagogue, also known as Dohány Street Synagogue.
It is the largest synagogue in Eurasia and the second largest in the world,
after the Temple Emanu-El in New York City.
It was an amazingly intricate structure in an ecclectic mix of styles.
More info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doh%C3%A1ny_Street_Synagogue
Like most of the architecture in Budapest, this is very ecclectic.
Romanesque arches (characterized by being round)
infilled with modified Gothic stone tracery,
an overall islamic/arabic geometric patterns (a certain grand irony there somewhere)
and Russian Orthodox onion domes.
And of course, many stars of David.
But it was exceptionally well done and very charming.
Copyright: Zane Paxton 2001-2016 Images may not be used without written permission
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