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| Budapest's Great Synagogue. This synagogue is the
largest in Europe and can accommodate up to 3,000 worshippers. |
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| Holocaust Memorial in back of the Great Synagogue
in memory of the 600,000 Hungarian Jews killed by the Nazis in World
War II. |
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The interior of the Great Synagogue. |
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The State Opera House opened in
1884 and was built to rival those in Paris and Vienna. In niches
on either side of the main entrance there are figures of two of
Hungary's
most prominent composers, Ferenc Erkel and Franz Liszt.
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Franz Liszt outside the State
Opera House. We toured the interior of the Opera House and it was
Old Europe magnificent but I wasn't allowed to take photographs. |
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Our last evening in Budapest
after visiting the Opera House. We departed for home the next
morning. |
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