Erzsébetváros ( or ) is the 7th district of
Budapest, situated on the
Pest side of the
Danube. The inner half of the district was the historic Jewish quarter of
Pest. The
Dohány Street Synagogue, the largest functioning synagogue in
Europe, is located in this district. Currently it is the most densely populated district of Budapest with 29,681.3 person per km
2. In 1910 Erzsébetváros had 152,454 inhabitants. During the
socialist era Erzsébetváros's population decreased rapidly, because young people and families moved to the newer "
panelized" boom districts (
Újpest,
Újbuda,
Óbuda,
Kispest etc.).
Gentrification and recovery started in the middle of the 2000s.