Dohany Street Synagogue (Great Synagogue) vs Rumbach Street Synagogue
Two temples in Budapest. Dohany Street Synagogue (Great Synagogue) has 3 tickets and tours to book; Rumbach Street Synagogue has no online ticket listed. The table and the two notes below put them side by side; the full pages have what to see, the ticket and the timing for each.
The synagogue is run by the Jewish community of Budapest, and visitors buy a single ticket that covers the Great Synagogue, the Hungarian Jewish Museum, the Heroes' Temple and the memorial garden. The standard ticket includes a short guided talk in the main hall, offered in several languages at regular intervals, which is the best way to understand what you are looking at. Tickets are sold at the visitor entrance on Dohany utca, but queues in summer can be long and there is a security check, so many visitors buy a timed ticket online.
Beyond the basic ticket, the options are a priority-entry ticket with a museum visit, a private guided tour that skips the queue and continues into the old Jewish Quarter, and ticket packages bundled with a self-guided audio walk through the district on your phone.
The Rumbach Street Synagogue is visited on an ordinary entry ticket bought at the door, and no ticket for this synagogue alone is sold online. Since the restoration completed in 2021 the building works as a synagogue, a Jewish museum space and a venue for concerts, plays and exhibitions, so what you pay for depends on when you come: a daytime visit to see the interior and the exhibition, or an evening ticket for a performance under the painted dome, which is a fine way to experience the acoustics and the lighting.
Most visitors reach it as part of a wider exploration of the old Jewish quarter of Pest, the area around Dohány, Rumbach and Kazinczy streets in the seventh district.
