Jewish Quarter
- Duration: 3 hours
- Total Price:
*Please note that the price includes the 600 CZK ticket giving access to all sites of the Jewish Museum open to the public (currently four synagogues and the Old Jewish cemetery).
Prague has a rich Jewish history spanning over a millennium. Together with Czech and German, Jewish culture forms the third pillar on which the city has been built.
On the tour, we will visit several important synagogues which together form the Jewish Museum of Prague. They include:
The Spanish Synagogue – the recently restored jewel of the Jewish Quarter.With lavish and intricate Moorish-styled decorations and functionalist additions from the 1920s, this synagogue has been the centre of Prague’s Jewish reform movement.
The Maisel Synagogue – built by an influential philanthropist and communal leader in the Jewish ghetto, Mordecai Maisel.
The Pinkas Synagogue – now a truly moving memorial to the Czech victims of the Holocaust, with over 78,000 names inscribed on the walls. This memorial also houses a mesmerizing yet deeply disturbing collection of paintings by the children interned in Terezin concentration camp.
The tour finishes at the Old-New Synagogue, a rare example of Gothic architecture and the second-oldest synagogue in this part of the world. Considered the centre of the Prague Jewish community for centuries, today it hosts regular Shabbat services for Prague’s Orthodox community.
We will also visit the world-famous Old Jewish cemetery with tens of thousands of clustered tombstones and pictorial symbols. The cemetery dates back to the Middle Ages and is one of the most fascinating sites in Prague. It is also the final resting place of the great Talmudic scholar and philosopher Rabbi Loew, also known as the Maharal of Prague.
- Duration: 3 hours
- Total Price:
Please note that the price includes the 600 CZK ticket giving access to all sites of the Jewish Museum open to the public (currently four synagogues and the Old Jewish cemetery).
Prague has a rich Jewish history spanning over a millennium. Together with Czech and German, Jewish culture forms the third pillar on which the city has been built.
On the tour, we will visit several important synagogues which together form the Jewish Museum of Prague. They include:
The Spanish Synagogue – the recently restored jewel of the Jewish Quarter.With lavish and intricate Moorish-styled decorations and functionalist additions from the 1920s, this synagogue has been the centre of Prague’s Jewish reform movement.
The Maisel Synagogue – built by an influential philanthropist and communal leader in the Jewish ghetto, Mordecai Maisel.
The Pinkas Synagogue – now a truly moving memorial to the Czech victims of the Holocaust, with over 78,000 names inscribed on the walls. This memorial also houses a mesmerizing yet deeply disturbing collection of paintings by the children interned in Terezin concentration camp.
The tour finishes at the Old-New Synagogue, a rare example of Gothic architecture and the second-oldest synagogue in this part of the world. Considered the centre of the Prague Jewish community for centuries, today it hosts regular Shabbat services for Prague’s Orthodox community.We will also visit the world-famous Old Jewish cemetery with tens of thousands of clustered tombstones and pictorial symbols. The cemetery dates back to the Middle Ages and is one of the most fascinating sites in Prague. It is also the final resting place of the great Talmudic scholar and philosopher Rabbi Loew, also known as the Maharal of Prague.
