Synagogue Tata

The task of the Exhibition Place for Greek-Roman Statue Replicas operating in the former Tata synagogue building is to collect and provide a comprehensive picture of the material and intellectual culture of Greek and Roman statues, as well as to present it. The collection of replicas of statues, which are now exhibited in the only exhibition venue and can be found in several museums worldwide today, is outstanding for both scientific and didactic purposes.

Building

The former Tata synagogue monument building houses the replicas of Greek and Roman statues. In the medieval and early modern periods a significant Jewish community lived in the town. The current synagogue building standing in Tata reflects a Romantic‑style reconstruction carried out according to the plans of architect Ignác Wechselman (1828‑1903) in 1861.

Collection

The scale replicas of outstanding works from the archaic, Greek, Roman and Hellenistic periods come from the replica collection purchased by the Fine Arts Museum’s antiquities department at the beginning of the 20th century. From the collection that entered the ownership of the Kuny Domokos Museum, about one hundred pieces were placed in 1977 on the ground floor of the Tata synagogue: archaic and Classical Greek art (7th‑6th, and 5th centuries BC), in the gallery works from the Hellenistic period, and masterpieces of Roman sculpture (4th century BC – 3rd century AD).

In the garden of the Tata synagogue, on November 18, 2004, on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day, the Holocaust memorial of Komárom‑Esztergom County and Maria Lugossy’s sculpture composition “In Memory of the Martyrs of All Times” were inaugurated.