Dohany Street Synagogue - Access Budapest

The Dohany Street Synagogue — Photograph by Nelson Pérez, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

The largest synagogue in Europe, and a single ticket that covers rather more than the building itself.

What it costs

Ticketed, and the ticket is a combined one: it covers the synagogue, the Hungarian Jewish Museum next door, the memorial garden and the cemetery in the courtyard. Buying the parts separately is not an option.

Guided tours in several languages are included at set times and are worth waiting for — much of what matters here is not self-explanatory.

The facade of the Dohany Street Synagogue — Photograph by Acediscovery, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0

When to go

Closed on Saturdays and on Jewish holidays. This is the most common wasted journey in District VII, because Saturday is exactly when visitors have a free day. Check the calendar before planning around it.

Getting there

Metro M2 to Astoria or M1/M2/M3 to Deak Ferenc ter — it stands between the two, at the edge of the Jewish Quarter.

Dohany Street beside the synagogue — Photograph by Bahnfrend, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

If you only have an hour

An hour is tight for the full ticket and the courtyard deserves time. If that is all you have, walk the Jewish Quarter instead — Kazinczy and Rumbach streets — and come back on a day that is not a Saturday with two hours and the combined ticket.

What people get wrong

The weeping willow in the courtyard is a Holocaust memorial with names on the leaves, and the courtyard itself is a mass grave from the winter of 1944–45. It is not a garden. The building’s Moorish Revival style is often mistaken for something ancient; it was completed in 1859.

The Great Synagogue on Dohany Street — Photograph by Nelson Pérez, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

Nearby

The Great Market HallFovam ter, at the Pest end of Liberty Bridge St Stephen's BasilicaSzent Istvan ter, Pest Andrassy AvenueDeak Ferenc ter to Heroes' Square Shoes on the Danube BankPest embankment, near Parliament

Ticketing arrangements and opening patterns as published for 2026 and checked on 4 September 2026. These change without much warning — confirm with the site itself before you travel. More sights, and how they fit together, in Landmarks & Sights.