The imposing domed building, still visible today, towering over the cemetery, is the so-called "Ciduk Hadin House", the cemetery's ceremonial building, designed by Lipót Baumhorn (1860, Kisbér - 1932, Budapest), unique in its style.[1] Built between 1903 and 1907 in the same historicist style as the New Synagogue in Szeged, this imposing building, combining Moorish and Art Nouveau elements, was constructed on the site of the former cinterem, or cemetery ceremonial building, destroyed in the Szeged floods. With its distinctive shape and brick cladding, this building is almost a sister to the New Synagogue and the headquarters of the local community in Szeged. [2] In the fields above the two opposite entrances to the cinterem, the word "Peace" is inscribed on one side, and on the north side the date of the building's construction according to the Hebrew calendar: התרס "ז, and a quotation in a semicircle: They enter in peace, they rest in their reclining places, they who walk in uprightness. (Isa 45:7, IMIT)

The interior wall of the building, illuminated by candlesticks in the shape of the Star of David, bears Hebrew religious texts and the names of those who died in the brick factory on Mihály Cserzy Street in June 1944. The World War I memorial plaque on the wall of the cinterem was designed by graphic artist Ármin Tardos-Taussig (1874, Timisoara - 1936, Szeged).3 Ten windows, about 6 metres high, are decorated with painted poppy flowers and poppy seedpods, symbols of death. The builders inscribed the names of their deceased relatives on the edges of the windows, some of which can still be read today, such as (in their Jewish names) Bach Efraim Bar Cvi, Ungar Reizl, Landesberg Avraham, Landesberg Smuel and his wife Finkel. It was renovated in 1996, its floor tiles and furniture are still original.[4] In the middle of the interior of the ceremonial building, in the basement, there is a trap door where a simple wooden coffin covered with a black sheet is placed until the ceremony. In the basement there is an H-shaped crypt system with seventy-two crypt chambers, where the coffin is lowered directly for crypt burials.[5] The vaults below are no longer used because of high ground water levels for much of the year. During the Second World War, more were broken open in the hope of finding "treasures", and only one remains intact. Lőw described this burial in detail in one of his eulogies: Whoever digs a niche in the tomb for his deceased is exempt from all other mitzvos for the time being. It was a sacred action to clear away the deceased in all our countries. The most ancient way was to use the niches dug in the cavities of the limestone rocks of the holy ground. The niches that emerged from the rock cavities, כוך, they placed the body. This ancient funerary order, which required an unburied tomb and a recessed wall cavity for a burial chamber, was renewed by our chevra when he turned the underground masonry of this temple-like dome into a tomb chamber. A protective roof lightly covers the sleep of the sleepers.[6]

The hedges along the cemetery roads in the northern, extended part were designed by Immánuel Lőw.[7] The old area, defined by the president of the chevra kadisha, Mózes Joachim Schäffer (1793 - 1882) in 1831, included a row of tuyas and oak trees,[8] and beyond, from north to south, a row of birch trees, Japanese acacia, tuyas, chestnut trees, hazel trees and elm trees, lined with stone and earth paths, which were completed by 1896.[9]

More than 13,000 burials have taken place since the cemetery was established. However, about 6,000 of the gravesites are no longer identifiable.[10] Many of the inscriptions on the early gravestones are barely legible due to the type or condition of the stone, while the newer ones often bear quotations, epitaphs (in most cases the characteristic lines of Lőw Immánuel written in hexameter) or inscriptions referring to the deceased. According to chevra kadisha rules, all epitaphs had to be approved by the community leadership. The rules stipulated that the side facing the grave could have a short inscription in Hebrew, followed by biographical details, then two or four verses in Hebrew, and in exceptional cases more, followed by religious words of consolation; the other side of the stone could be in German or Hungarian - but no tombstone could be made without a Hebrew inscription. ^[11] A peculiarity of the Jewish cemetery in Szeged is that on many gravestones the words "born", "married" and "died" are often replaced by symbols, as suggested by Immánuel Lőw: a star, a ring and a poppy seed that brings deep sleep.