Klausen Synagogue
Early Baroque synagogue rebuilt after a devastating seventeenth-century ghetto fire, with a soaring carved Torah ark.
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This guide to the Klausen Synagogue in Prague begins in 1689, when a great fire swept the Jewish Town and cleared a cluster of small buildings that included a school once taught by Rabbi Loew. You'll hear about Rabbi Shelomo Khalish Cohen, the patron Samuel Oppenheimer and the towering Torah ark. Best heard beside the Old Jewish Cemetery, looking up at the barrel vault.
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