Old Jewish Cemetry, Prague
On the left wall before the entrance is a plaque detailing conservation efforts (which cost 1 million crowns per year).
On the left wall before the entrance is a plaque detailing conservation efforts (which cost 1 million crowns per year). Over 20,000 people are buried in about twelve layers of graves, stacked to save space. Avigdor Kara is the earliest known person buried here - he was a poet who lived to tell about the 1389 pogrom. The reddish, grey and black tombstones are tilted at crazy angles, some covered with moss, some newly cleaned. Walking along the path that winds around the perimeter, Rabbi Loew's tombstone is about halfway through. It has a lion on it and a plaque on the wall across from it. Loew is known as the father of the Golem legend in Prague.
Hours
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Mon
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Tue
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Wed
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Thu
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Closed
About Old Jewish Cemetry
Old Jewish Cemetery, Široká, 110 00 Prague-Prague 1, Czech Republic
Old Jewish Cemetry and Nearby Sights on Map
Klausen Synagogue
Pinkas Synagogue
Inside the front door of the Pinkas Synagogue, inscribed in tiny red and black letters on almost every square inch of wallspace are the names of 77,297 Jews who were killed in the war
Josefov
Jewish quarter of Prague
Old-New Synagogue
The name sounds strange for a building from the 13th century but it was originally just 'New' to distinguish it from an even older synagogue
Clementinum
Historic complex of Baroque buildings, including the Library Hall, Mirror Chapel and Astronomical Tower
Pariska Street
Rudolfinum
Neo-Renaissance style music auditorium
Church of the Holy Ghost
The Spanish Synagogue
The Spanish Synagogue, so-called because Sephardic Jews expelled from Spain at the end of the 15th century built a previous synagogue on this site, is a wild combination of neo-Renaissance and Moorish-Spain style
