Prague Jewish Town

The Maisel Synagogue was built in 1590-1592 by the Mayor of the Jewish Town, Mordechai Maisel, who funded the extensive Renaissance reconstruction of the ghetto. The builders of this synagogue were Josef Wahl and Juda Goldsmied de Herz.

The Old-New Synagogue is the oldest site of Prague’s Jewish Town and the oldest extant synagogue in Europe. It has been the main synagogue of the Prague Jewish community for more than 700 years.

The building housing the former Ceremonial Hall and mortuary of the Old Jewish Cemetery was built in a pseudo–Romanesque style in 1911 – 1912 to a design by architect J. Gerstl.

The Klausen Synagogue is located by the entrance to the Old Jewish Cemetery. It takes its name from the German word “Klaus” meaning “smal building”, which is derived from the Latin “claustrum”.

The Old Jewish Cemetery was established in the first half of the 15th century. Along with the Old–New Synagogue, it is one of the most important historic sites in Prague´s Jewish Town.

The present building is the work of the Horowitz family. In 1535 Aaron Meshullam Horowitz had it built between his house “U Erbů” and the site of the Old Jewish Cemetery.

The Spanish Synagogue was built in 1868 on the site of the oldest Prague Jewish house of prayer (“the Old Shul”). It was designed in a Moorish style by Vojtěch Ignátz Ullmann and Josef Niklas.

The Maisel Synagogue was built in 1590-1592 by the Mayor of the Jewish Town, Mordechai Maisel, who funded the extensive Renaissance reconstruction of the ghetto. The builders of this synagogue were Josef Wahl and Juda Goldsmied de Herz.

Founded in 1906, the Jewish Museum in Prague is consistently the most visited museum in the whole of the Czech Republic. Its sites are located in the preserved area of the former Jewish Town in the historic centre of Prague, which is on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.