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.Chinese pavilion in Betlér
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well, i found an old painting.
.synagogue of losonc
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.A colossal building of the former Neolog synagogue is as a grand memorial to Slovak Jewry: the community disappeared during the Holocaust, after the war their houses were demolished. Only the decaying synagogue remained, surrounded by a typical Communist housing estate. In course of time, the locals robbed the building of everything valuable, so that today we find capitols from the interior in private gardens in the city. The synagogue was constructed in the mid-1920s after designs of the well-known Budapest-based synagogue architect, Lipót Baumhorn. The architect applied here his favorite scheme of the Greek cross with a central dome and corner stair-towers. The stair-towers he articulated as a western two-tower façade or polygonal eastern addition. Between them the architect placed a polygonal “presbytery”, which served as daily prayer hall. The dilapidated interior hints at the original inner spatial distribution; four pillars, supporting the dome, also carried the women’s gallery, which run along three sides of the sanctuary. The style of the synagogue represents the distinctive Baumhornian eclecticism with Moorish, Byzantine, and Art Nouveau elements, typical for Hungarian national architecture prior to World War I. (source: http://www.slovak-jewish-heritage.org/)
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