Near the center of Satu Mare / Szatmár stand two synagogues side by side. The larger one, completed in 1892, by the designs of the Oradean architect Nándor Bach seats some 900 people. It is built in Moorish-Byzantine style. This is the Satmar Shul.
The other was added a little later, in 1920. It is smaller, Art Deco by design, also Orthodox and is in use today on Shabbes and Yontev. A little over a hundred Jews live in the county nowadays, so the minyan is precarious. Anybody happening to visit: help is welcome.
There was a third large synagogue in the town, just a few hundred meters further east; it was Neolog and was knocked down in 1964. The Ceausescu regime erected a grand new police station on the site. (See the post on the Szatmár Jewish cemeteries.)
