The largest currently functioning synagogue of Europe was finished in 1859, in Neo-Moorish style. The two bulbous domes are over 43 meters high. The interior space has a flat ceiling and a capacity for nearly three thousand believers: there are 1497 seats for men on the groundfloor, while the two galleries on the upper floor have 1472 seats for women. The nave was built with a cast iron straight arch of a 12-meter span. Originally, the synagogue was built among residential houses. One of them was the birthplace of writer and journalist Theodor Herzl, the founder of the Zionist movement. The arcade and the Heroes Temple with a capacity of 250, which is now used for daily observance, were built in 1931.
The Holocaust Memorial was erected in the garden of the Dohány utca synagogue in 1989. It is situated above a mass grave of 1944-45. All leaves of the metal weeping willow have the name of a martyr carved on them.

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