Choral Temple

Bucharest


The Choral Temple, built in 1857, is the city's main working synagogue and is visually stunning inside. You'll need your passport to enter. A memorial to the victims of the Holocaust (including some 400,000 Romanian Jews), erected in 1991, fronts the temple.


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