Talk:Dohány Street Synagogue

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[edit] 2nd Largest?

From the Synagogue article:

The Dohány Street Synagogue or Great Synagogue in Budapest, Hungary is the largest synagogue in Europe and the fourth largest in the world, after the Beit Midrash of Ger in Jerusalem, the Belz World Center and the Congregation Emanu-El in New York City. It seats 3,000 people and is a centre of Neolog Judaism and hosts the Jewish Museum of Budapest. The building was built in 1854-1859 according to the plans of architect Ludwig Förster.

Seems to be some discrepancies across a large number of articles as to which order these Synagogues rank. Grunners (talk) 22:08, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

• Largest synagogue

The information on the Dohany Street synagogue is not wrong, merely made obsolete by new buildings. The new Gerer synagogue in Jerusalem seats 8,500 , the new Belz synagogue in Jerusalem seats 6,000. These buildings have to be seen to be believed. Check at wikepedia: Synagogue. They're not as magnificent as Dohany, merely immense. The N. Y. Times citation was just a travel article. The Dohaney was the biggest for so long, people, even the infallible New York Times, just got used to saying that it was without checking what Jews have been building lately.Elan26 (talk) 23:22, 11 June 2008 (UTC)Elan26