The Moorish interior of the Great Synagogue and other synagogues throughout Budapest attests to the Sephardic origins of many Hungarian Jews, who immigrated from Iberia after being expelled from Spain during the Great Inquisition of 1492. The Ark pictured here now holds 25 surviving Torah scrolls, which were saved from the Nazis by Catholic priests, who hid the holy books in several places, including a Christian cemetery.