Synagoge in Český Krumlov
Reinforced-concrete Art Nouveau prayer house now hosting a cafe in the former rabbi's painted rooms.
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This guide to the synagogue in Český Krumlov opens in the rabbi's old bedroom, now a cafe table, and traces the four centuries a local decree from 1494 kept Jews from sleeping inside the town walls. It follows the small congregation that finally raised this hill's synagogue in 1909, funded by paper-mill owner Ludwig Spiro and built in experimental reinforced concrete by Prague architect Viktor Kafka, and the Nazi ransacking of 1938 that ended its use as a house of prayer. Order a coffee and you're sitting in rooms built to prove a family could stay.
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