It was time for our return to the Dohany Street Synagogue, this time to take a tour inside.
The synagogue is famous for holding 7000 seated people and an additional 7000 standing people.
The pulpit is a holdover from when the synagogue was used as a church.
The loft above the entrance was used by the Gestapo during the war, who rightly figured the Allies would not bomb the synagogue.
The tree with aluminum leaves commemorating people lost to the Holocaust.
The neighborhood nearby was heavily Jewish even before it was turned into a ghetto by the Nazis. A balcony nearby incorporates the menorah into the design.
We left our tour at a street market extending several blocks.
Our next stop was St. Stephen's Church.
It was filled with incense from recent services.
St. Stephen was the first king of Hungary, and a saint, so he embodies the relationship between the Church and the state. So the crown of the Holy Roman Empire is featured in one window....
with the symbol of the Catholic Church is in another.
A famous small chapel of the Black Madonna.
A small chapel toward the rear of the church houses the right hand of St. Stephen.
Tom found a new friend. He was jolly, but not very talkative.
The distance to the Danube.
We had in mind a ride on the ferris wheel.
No bridges will be harmed in the locking of these lovelocks.
A music festival was going on at the park near the ferris wheel, so we listened to school children sing gospel hymns for a while before our ride.
St. Stephens where we had just been.
Time to get out of the ferris wheel and find some lunch at the food trucks!
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