Attached to the Jewish town hall and housing the Jewish museum’s collection of silver, Torah pointers and ceremonial crowns is the High Synagogue. So named for its’ location on the second floor. The lower chamber houses a kosher restaurant. Mordecai Maisel founded the synagogue. The current building is a reconstruction …
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Jewish Ceremonial Hall
The building of the former Ceremonial Hall and Mortuary situated at the Old Jewish Cemetery might at first sight look rather like a castle or Romanesque manor. It was built in a pseudo-Romanesque style in 1911-12 according to the design of a prominent architect, František Gerstel. Nowadays, this building holds …
Read More »Jewish Town Hall in Prague
The Jewish Town Hall is currently home to the Federation of Jewish Religious Communities in Bohemia and Moravia, and the Jewish Religious community in Prague. It was created out of the renovation of the original town hall of Maisel, a contemporary of Rabbi Löw and a man of inordinate wealth …
Read More »Klaus Synagogue
Dating back to the mid 13th century the Klaus Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Central Europe and its gates are the oldest in Prague. The early Gothic style gives a great impression of how many of Prague’s buildings once looked. There are many legends about this building, one claims …
Read More »Pinkas Synagogue
There is a story that Rabbi Pinkas had a dead monkey thrown through his window. However the pranksters did not know that the monkey had swallowed some gold coins belonging to its master who was a goldsmith – the monkey had been trying to imitate the master biting the coins …
Read More »Jewish Heritage in Prague
The Jewish people of Prague have played a massive role in the way that the city has developed, more so than any other Jewish community in the continent. This is immediately evident when you look at the Old Town Hall, which was built in the early 1900s, and portrays a …
Read More »The Districts Of Prague
Prague is split up into 22 different districts (10 major) and each of these is divided, again, loosely into neighbourhoods. Below is a brief description of every district, with plus and minus points about each of them: Prague One is a centrally located area, that includes Malá Strana (the Old …
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