Mediaeval Jewish Chapel

Built in 1364, the Medieval Synagogue is a small two-room synagogue in Buda Castle - a UNESCO World Heritage Site - that was taken from the Jews after a devastating pogrom in 1686 when a coalition of Christian armies retook Buda from the Ottoman Turks. The synagogue was converted into residential housing and was forgotten until the 1960s, when Jewish marks were discovered under the paint on the interior ceiling during the restoration of the buildings by the (then communist) Hungarian government. Since then the room has been open to the public as a museum, but it has never been used as a place of worship. Religious yet.