When designing the synagogue, Frster made some innovations: he had an organ built and the Torah reader's platform was put before the Ark, not in the centre of the synagogue; these innovations were accepted by the Orthodox majority of the city's Jews.
When designing the synagogue, Forster made some innovations: he had an organ built and the Torah reader's platform was put before the Ark, not in the centre of the synagogue. These innovations were rejected by the Orthodox majority of the city's Jews, and in the year following the opening of the synagogue a rabbinical assembly in Satoraljaujhely excommunicated the rabbi of Miskolc. 
