Szeged Synagogue

The Szeged Synagogue is a synagogue in Szeged, Hungary. It is a 1907 constructing designed by the Jewish Hungarian architect Lipot Baumhorn, whose paintings is taken into consideration to contain the finest examples of the precise fin de siecle Hungarian mixing of Art Nouveau and Historicist patterns every now and then called Magyar style. It served Szeged's big Neolog community. The constructing's indoors, with its forty eight.5 meters tall domed ceiling, draws on multiple historical styles to produce its overall Art Nouveau/Moorish Revival style.

The rib-like wall above the organ has Gothic origins, while the columns assisting the galleries are Roman. The indoors of the extremely good dome, and all the building's stained glass, are the paintings of the artist Miksa Roth. The layout of the Torah Ark alludes to the Holy of Holies in the Temple of Solomon via the use of sittimwood from the banks of Nile, the timber known as for in the constructing of the Temple of Solomon in 1 kings. The hinges are in the form of the Hyssop plant, a plant used in the ancient Temple service.