Klausová synagoga

( Klausen Synagogue )

The Klausen Synagogue (Czech: Klausová synagoga, Yiddish: קלויז שול, kloyz shul) is nowadays the largest synagogue in the former Prague Jewish ghetto and the sole example of an early Baroque synagogue in the ghetto. Today the synagogue is administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague.

Beginnings  The interior today

In 1570s a renowned businessman and benefactor of the ghetto, Mordechai Maisel, decided to build in the area of the present Klausen Synagogue a kloyz, or complex of buildings, probably including synagogues and a private Talmudic school. The famous Prague rabbi and scholar Maharal taught at this school.[1] In 1689, the great fire of the ghetto burned down all the kloyzn and the synagogue is named after them.

Shelomo Khalish Cohen,[1] a rabbi of the burned down synagogue, which had been part of the complex, then initiated construction of a new synagogue in early baroque style at the site. In 1694, the building was finished and two years later monumental three-tiered aron ha-kodesh, the Torah Ark, was added, thanks to the endowment of Samuel Oppenheimer, an affluent and influential personality of the Austrian monarchy, part of which Prague was at the time. Many important rabbis, for example Elazar Fleckeles, are also connected with the synagogue.

 The Interior of the Klausen Synagogue in the 19th centuryModern times

In 1883–84, the synagogue was reconstructed by an architect Bedřich Münzberger, who also partook in decorating the Spanish Synagogue. Massive urban renewal of the ghetto at the turn of the 20th century left the Klausen Synagogue intact, while other baroque synagogues such as the Zigeuner, Great Court and New Synagogue were demolished. Nowadays, the Klausen Synagogue is thus the only example of a baroque synagogue in the former ghetto.

During the World War II a depository as well as an exposition was located in the synagogue. As soon as one year after the war, an exposition about Jewish festivals and customs was opened there. The synagogue was reconstructed in years 1960, 1979–81 and 1983 (aron ha-kodesh only). One year after the last mentioned reconstruction, a new permanent exhibition of Hebrew manuscripts and early prints was opened.[2]

^ a b Pařík, Arno (2009). Putík, Alexandr (ed.). Cesta života: Rabi Jehuda Leva ben Beclalel (kol. 1525–1609). Praha: Academia & Židovské muzeum v Praze. pp. 253–255. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) ^ Pařík, Arno; Cabanová, Dana; Kliment, Petr (2011). Pražské synagogy = Prague Synagogues = Prager Synagogen (2. ed.). Prague: Židovské muzeum v Praze. pp. 74–83.
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