{"id":391,"date":"2024-08-22T14:40:30","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T13:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/?p=391"},"modified":"2024-08-22T20:10:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T19:10:20","slug":"the-great-synagogue-of-gyor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jewishbitsandpieces.rennert.org\/index.php\/2024\/08\/22\/the-great-synagogue-of-gyor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Synagogue of Gy\u00f6r"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Can be found at Kossuth Lajos utca 5 near the center of Gy\u00f6r, a town of over 100.000 inhabitants, among them approximately 10 Jews.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the post-Shoah community of 780 survivors didn’t have the means for its upkeep, the building was sold to the city of Gy\u00f6r some time in the 1960s. Since the 1970s it serves as music school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the school is closed in summer, I found a friendly elderly woman who led me through several locked doors in to the main hall and allowed me to take a few pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is evidently one of the last survivors of this once proud and flourishing community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Never before have I seen such a clock <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some photographs of the interior:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Aron Kodesh <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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