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MAISELOVA SYNAGOGA (MAISELOVA SYNAGOGA)

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10, Maiselova, Prague, Czech Republic
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2024
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It was built by Marc Mordechai Maisel, primate of the Jewish community, between 1590 and 1592 after receiving the approval of Rudolph II. In 1689, a fire destroyed the area and the old synagogue was rebuilt. Its current appearance dates from between 1893 and 1905, in the neo-Gothic style. Then it was transformed by the Nazis into a warehouse for furniture from the spoliations of deportees' apartments. The exhibition The History of the Jews in Bohemia and Moravia in the 20th and 18th centuries has been installed here (another part of the exhibition is in the Spanish synagogue). We get to know the Jewish population and the historical data on this territory, the legal and social situation of their ancestors. You can learn interesting things about Jewish wisdom and some of their representatives from the Renaissance period.

In the display cases there are many tin and silver objects classified by theme, you will see crowns that decorated the Torah scrolls or small artificial hands that helped to follow the text. Most of these objects were stored by the Nazis in order to open a kind of giant Jewish museum in Prague.

Maiselova Street presents a succession of buildings, mostly Secession, which punctuate the space in beautiful verticals. Particular attention should be paid to numbers 3, 5, 7, 9 and 21, the latter being the work of architects F. Weyr and R. Klenka (1911).

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La synagogue offre une exposition très instructive et claire, dans un cadre très agréable ! A ne pas négliger pour mieux comprendre les enjeux de cette partie de la ville.

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