The building housing the fomer Ceremonial Hall and mortuary of the Old Jewish Cemetery was built in a pseudo-Romanesque style in 1911-12 to a design by architect J. Gerstl. As part of the Jewish Museum, the Ceremonial Hall of the Prague Burial Society Hevrah Kaddishah (founded in 1564) later became an exhibition venue.
EXHIBITION:
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The Church of St Nicholas in the Lesser Quarter in Prague is the highlight of Jesuit architecture from the Baroque period. It was built in the location of an older Gothic church and its construction took nearly 60 years. The church was designed by the best Baroque architects of Prague – Kryštof Dientzenhofer and later on his son...
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History
The St Agnes Convent was founded by the Premyslid Princess Anežka (Agnes), sister of King Václav I in 1231 as the first convent of the Order of Poor Clares north of the Alps. It was the first Gothic building in Prague. The grounds originally had a larger Poor Clare convent and less significant monastery of Friars Minor, that was...
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The monumental palace with its 150 metre long façade was founded in 1669 by the Imperial ambassador in Venice, Jan Humprecht Černín of Chudenic.
The building site was chosen at one of the highest point in Prague (275 metres above sea level), 18 metres higher than the floor of the St Vitus Cathedral. Černín was set on...
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The Gothic cathedral situated on the second courtyard of the Prague Castle is the largest church in Prague. It was founded by Charles, then the Moravian margrave, together with his father John of Luxemburg in 1344 to celebrate the promotion of the Prague bishopric to an archbishopric. In 1346 Charles became the Czech king Charles IV.
At Charles...
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In the densely built-up area of the Old Town, at the corner of Konviktská and Karoliny Světlé streets, there is probably the oldest Prague Romanesque rotunda – Rotunda of Finding of the Holy Cross – Church of the Holy Cross.
In the 17th century, the rotunda belonged to the Dominican order of St. Giles. The chapel was...
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Everyone passing through the Jiřího z Poděbrad Square will surely notice the modern, unusual church right in the centre of the square. I myself had always just turned my eyes towards this curious, bold building, until one day I entered it to take a better look at the Church of the Sacred Heart. I was enchanted. While on the outside, the...
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The Carolinum is the seat of the Prague University which was founded on April 7th 1348 by Charles IV and therefore bears his name.
The core of the Carolinum is formed by the Gothic Rotlev house from the 3rd quarter of the 14th century, which king Wenceslas IV acquired and donated to Charles’ college. The building has great historical...
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