1909–1918Synagogue
Rákóczi Ferenc Road and the Synagogue
A tram stands in the street outside the synagogue, which was finished in 1909. A message is written in ink across the sky, and a violet rubber stamp giving a private name and the town of Hódmezővásárhely is struck over the picture, the mark of an owner rather than of the publisher. The caption is Hungarian alone, with the street name in the older cz spelling, which puts the card before 1918.
About this place
The synagogue on Jevrejska street was built in 1905-1909 to a design by the Budapest architect Lipót Baumhorn, in Hungarian Secession style, with room for 900 worshippers; synagogues had stood on the same site since 1749. During the Second World War occupation, Jews of Novi Sad were imprisoned in the building before deportation to Nazi death camps; of the more than 4,000 Jews living in the city before the war, roughly 1,000 survived. The building served as a synagogue until about 1966 and since 2012 has been used as a cultural venue for concerts and Jewish holiday celebrations. It was designated a Cultural Monument of Exceptional Importance in 1983.
On the card
Rakoczi Ferencz-ut / Laurencz Ferencz, Hodmezovasarhely
- Date
- 1909–1918
- Coordinates
- 45.25306, 19.84083
- Source
- Public online source
- Licence
- Public domain
- Size
- 1256 × 822 px
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