The Makó Neological Synagogue is a former

Neolog Neologs ( hu, neológ irányzat, "Neolog faction") are one of the two large communal organizations among Hungarian Jews, Hungarian Jewry. Socially, the liberal and modernist Neologs had been more inclined toward integration into Hungarian society ...

Jewish congregation and large

synagogue A synagogue, ', 'house of assembly', or ', "house of prayer"; Yiddish: ''shul'', Ladino: or ' (from synagogue); or ', "community". sometimes referred to as shul, and interchangeably used with the word temple, is a Jewish house of worshi ...

, that was located in the town of

Makó Makó (, german: Makowa, yi, מאַקאָווע Makowe, ro, Macău or , sk, Makov) is a town in Csongrád County, in southeastern Hungary, from the Romanian border. It lies on the Maros River. Makó is home to 23,272 people and it has an area ...

, in the county of Csongrád-Csanád, Hungary. Completed in 1914, the synagogue was demolished in 1965.

History

At the end of the 19th century, Mako's prominent and socially Neologous Jews decided to build a new synagogue. The new synagogue was built perpendicular to Eötvös Street, according to the plans of Lipót Baumhorn, inaugurated in 1914. Above the square of the central building, the dome on the octagonal hill, the eastern wing of the octagonal lock and the two chapel-like staircases surrounding it, and its semicircular twin-windowed windows, resembled Baumhorn's

Eger Synagogue The Eger Synagogue is a former Neolog Jewish synagogue that was located in Eger, Hungary. Completed in 1913, the building was used a synagogue until World War II and profane use until its demolition in 1967. History The Eger Synagogue was ...

, also since demolished. Following the destruction of the Mako Jewry during World War II, the synagogue was no longer used for its purpose. In the 1950s and 1960s, several ideas for renovating the synagogue were proposed. Eventually, the National Israeli Religious Community sold the building to the Kossuth Production Cooperative in 1965 for Ft500,000, without consulting the Jews living in the city. The building was subsequently demolished. The city police station is now located in a building on the site of the former synagogue.

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