Budapest: Great Synagogue Entry Tickets

Your experience

Explore Budapest's Great Synagogue complex with skip-the-line access and expert guidance.

Getting started

Arrive at the synagogue and present your voucher at the ticket office or entrance to validate your ticket. After validation, you will receive a kippah at the entrance, which must be worn inside the complex at all times. Follow on-site signs or staff directions to join the guided tour or proceed inside for your self-guided visit.

What to expect

Great Synagogue complex

This option focuses on the Great Synagogue and its surrounding buildings, including the Heroes’ Temple, the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Park, the cemetery, the Hungarian Jewish Museum, the Lapidarium, and the cellar exhibitions. Your visit combines architectural, historical, and cultural perspectives on Hungarian Jewish life.

Features

• Walk through the synagogue, the Heroes’ Temple, the Raoul Wallenberg Memorial Park, and the cemetery to understand key moments and figures in Hungarian Jewish history.

• Explore the Hungarian Jewish Museum and the Lapidarium to see objects and stone relics that reflect religious traditions, community life, and remembrance.

• Visit the temporary exhibitions in the cellar, where rotating displays add further context to Jewish heritage and memory.

• Benefit from skip-the-line entry to the Great Synagogue, so you can enter without waiting in the regular ticket queue.

• Join a guided tour of the Great Synagogue complex, available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Hebrew, and Hungarian, for in-depth commentary on the sites you visit.

• Access the Hungarian Jewish Museum, the Lapidarium, and the temporary cellar exhibitions as part of your ticket, depending on the option you select.

Wrapping up

After exploring the synagogue and any included museum or exhibition spaces, you are free to leave at your own pace or continue discovering the surrounding Jewish quarter independently.