The Great Synagogue in Dohány Street is nominated for the European Heritage Label

According to MTI.hu, the Great Synagogue in Dohány Street is also among the 9 sites nominated for the European Heritage Label. Based on the information of the Federation of Hungarian Jewish Communities (MAZSIHISZ), the necessary documentation was prepared by the Hungarian Jewish Communities.

The Great Synagogue was nominated for the label as a complex with the belonging museum, the archive, the memorial set up for the commemoration of the Hungarian Jewish soldiers who died in World War I, the garden preserving the remains of the victims of the holocaust, and the Raoul Wallenberg Holocaust Memorial Park. Therefore, Hungary could have the 3rd site on the European Heritage list along with the Pan-European Picnic Memorial Park in Sopron and Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest.

This year, several sites from various countries have been nominated for the label:

• the musical history sites (Germany)
• the Fort Cadine (Italy)
• the Javorca Chapel (Slovenia)
• the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp and its smaller camps (France and Germany)
• the Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance (Romania)
• Bois du Cazier, a once coal mine (Belgium)
• Schengen village (Luxembourg)
• Maastricht Treaty (the Netherlands)

According to the announcement of the Prime Ministry, the Great Synagogue of Budapest is the largest synagogue in Europe and the 2nd largest in the world. It symbolizes integration, commemoration and the openness towards dialogue in the history of Europe.

The European Heritage Label was set up with the aim to foreground the common European heritage, strengthen the communal identity and stabilize the dialogues between cultures. They award the sites playing an important role in the creation of the European cultural identity, reports turizmus.com. From this perspective, the Great Synagogue in Dohány Street is a perfect choice.