As a result of emancipation, the Jews of Hungary were granted a high degree of freedom in the second half of the 19th century.

In 1893, the Jewish community of Pest made a request to the leadership of the capital: The capital of the church to be built designated the plot surrounded by Szalay, Szemere, Markó and Koháry (today Ignác Nagy) streets and gave it to the community free of charge.

Plans were submitted by Ernő Foerk and Ferenc Schömer,[1] Zoltán Bálint and Lajos Jámbor,[2] Béla Lajta,[3] Albert Schikedanz and Fülöp Herzog,[4] Géza Márkus,[5] József Vágó, László Vágó, and Izidor Scheer,[6] with Scheer also submitting a plan with Manó Pollák.

Foerk and Schömer subsequently submitted new plans,[10] but they did not reach the appropriate level of budgeted costs.

After lengthy planning in 1907, the community dr. Fülöp Weinmann (1839–1911), a court councilor and a new president of the community, rejected further plans and replaced the Ignác Nagy Street plot with another plot next to the Dohány Street Synagogue, where the Temple of the Heroes was later built.