The Dohány Street Synagogue holds 3,000 worshippers across its Moorish Revival nave, making it the largest synagogue in Europe and the second largest in the world. Consecrated in 1859, the building was designed by Viennese architect Ludwig Förster, who fused Byzantine domes, Islamic horseshoe arches, and Gothic rose windows into a vocabulary distinct from both Christian and traditional Ashkenazi forms. The twin onion-domed towers rise 43 metres above Dohány utca, their brick façades striped in ochre and terracotta bands that mimic the Alhambra. Inside, the iron-framed gallery structure—unprecedented in synagogue design—allowed women to worship under the same roof as men while maintaining Orthodox separation, a spatial compromise that reflected the Neolog movement's attempt to modernize Hungarian Judaism without abandoning ritual law. The compound today is more than a house of prayer. The Hungarian Jewish Museum, occupying the birthplace of Theodor Herzl, holds Torah crowns, Hanukkah lamps, and embroidered parochet curtains spanning five centuries of Carpathian Basin Jewish life. The Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Park, planted in the rear courtyard where 2,000 Budapest Jews were interred during the 1944–45 siege, bears a weeping-willow sculpture in steel: each of its 4,000 leaves is etched with the name of a Holocaust victim. The cemetery itself is an anomaly—Jewish law prohibits burial within sacred precincts, but emergency wartime conditions forced the community to inter their dead steps from the sanctuary. Booking a Budapest Jewish heritage tour & synagogue ticket today grants priority entrance to the complex and typically pairs the synagogue visit with a walking circuit through the Seventh District, where pre-war courtyards, kosher bakeries, and ruin-pub conversions coexist. Most Budapest Jewish Quarter heritage experiences include live narration covering the 1941 ghetto boundaries, the Arrow Cross terror, and the post-1989 cultural revival that reclaimed Kazinczy Street and Gozsdu Udvar. The Dohány Street site anchors these itineraries because it survived both the Nazis and the communist decades structurally intact, its archive and ritual objects preserved when hundreds of smaller shuls across Hungary were demolished or repurposed. The building's survival—and its ongoing role as the seat of Hungary's Neolog denomination—makes it the most tangible link between the Jewish Budapest of 1900, when the district was Europe's most densely Jewish urban quarter outside the Pale of Settlement, and the 100,000-strong community that calls the city home in 2026.