Jerusalem Synagogue | Prague
Moorish Revival synagogue of striped stone arches, built to replace three demolished houses of worship.
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This guide to the Jerusalem Synagogue in Prague opens with a locked, boxed-up room guarded by men stripping a people of everything they owned during the nineteen forties. It traces back to the eighteen nineties, when city planners tore down three older synagogues in the ghetto and Viennese architect Wilhelm Stiassny raised this Moorish-arched replacement, first named for an emperor's jubilee, then renamed Jerusalem after independence. Along the way the sanctuary spent the Nazi occupation packed with furniture and belongings seized from Jewish families across the city.
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