Archaeological findings of remnants of foundation stones prove that the oldest building standing in this location was built in the 12th century in the Romanesque style. It must have been one of the oldest, if not the oldest, synagogues in Prague. As an old Hebrew memorial tablet testifies, in 1535 Žalman Hořovský, known as Munka, built a...
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The Baroque building of the Klaus Synagogue in Prague was built in the 17th century in the place where the Rabbi Löw taught at the turn of the 16th and 17th century. Today the synagogue houses a permanent exhibition on Jewish traditions and customs, which remain a mirror of the Jewish past.
The entrance into the exhibition is lined with...
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The Old-New Synagogue in Prague is the oldest synagogue in Europe. It was built around the year 1270 in early Gothic style and belongs amongst the oldest preserved Gothic monuments in Prague. The origin of the name “Old-New” is unclear and there are several explanations. According to one version a new synagogue was built on old...
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Today it is the oldest unharmed Jewish cemetery as it survived the Nazi occupation unscathed. The cemetery was founded in the first half of the 15th century. The oldest tombstone, bearing the date of April 25th 1439, is that of Avigdor Kara, a scholar and poet who survived the pogrom of 1389 and wrote an elegy in memory of its victims.
The charm...
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The building housing the fomer Ceremonial Hall and mortuary of the Old Jewish Cemetery was built in a pseudo-Romanesque style in 1911-12 to a design by architect J. Gerstl. As part of the Jewish Museum, the Ceremonial Hall of the Prague Burial Society Hevrah Kaddishah (founded in 1564) later became an exhibition venue.
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The Maisel Synagogue is one of the several preserved synagogues of the Prague Jewish Quarter. The original building from the years 1590-1592 had three naves divided by twenty pillars. Side naves for women were later built onto the main nave accessible only to men. Between the years 1893-1905 the synagogue was reconstructed by the architect...
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A synagogue, later called the Old School, stood in this location as early as the 12th century. It received its present name at the beginning of the 16th century, when a group of Jews fleeing from the Spanish Catholic inquisition came to Prague. They belonged to the so-called Sephardic Jews, whose rituals differ slightly from those of the Ashkenazy...
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