The Sion Neolog Synagogue & Jewish History Museum Oradea
Supplied by: Museum of Jewish History in Oradea
Learn about Oradea's Jewish history at two important local landmarks
Highlights
- Visit the Museum of Jewish History in Oradea and find out about the past of the city's Orthodox Jews Trace the origins of Oradea's first Jewish community in 1722 through to personal stories of persecution during the Holocaust Step inside the Sion Neolog Synagogue – the third-largest in Europe – built by the Reform Jews of Oradea in 1878
What's included
- Skip-the-line entrance to the Sion Neolog Synagogue & Jewish History Museum in Oradea
- Meet and Greet Combo: You will meet the guide at the starting point and will be given a 20-minute introduction. You will visit the Synagogue on your own, and the guide will take the group to the second venue
Overview
In the Museum of Jewish History in Oradea – housed in the Aachvas Rein Orthodox Synagogue, built in 1926 – you can take a chronological journey which tells the tale of the city's Jewish population, from their establishment to the subsequent splitting of the community, and the tragic ghettoization and deportation during World War II.
You'll also get to visit the Sion Neolog Synagogue. Dating back to 1878, it's a simplified, modern replica of the one in Nuremberg and can seat up to 1,000 people inside. The building has a basilica-like spatial arrangement with three naves, and the exterior's central section is reminiscent of the architecture of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
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