Pinkas Synagogue Memorial
Pinkas Synagogue Memorial features on the Gingerguide audio walk through Prague. Give it roughly ~30 min: enough to look, hear a two to three minute story on the spot, and ask the AI guide whatever the story leaves open.
- Type monument
- Suggested visit ~30 min
- Prague Prague guide
About Pinkas Synagogue Memorial
A 1535 synagogue whose walls bear the hand-inscribed names of 77,297 Jewish victims of the Shoah from Bohemia and Moravia; children's drawings from Terezín are displayed upstairs.
The Pinkas Synagogue, built in 1535 by Aron Meshulam Horowitz and named after his grandson Rabbi Pinkas Horowitz, is the second-oldest surviving synagogue in Prague. Since the 1950s its interior has served as the Memorial to the Jewish Victims of the Shoah from Bohemia and Moravia. The walls carry the hand-inscribed names of 77,297 victims, grouped by home community and given with dates of birth and of death or deportation. The names were first painted between 1954 and 1959 by Václav Boštík and Jiří John.
After the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion the memorial was closed, officially because of damp but widely understood as political suppression; the names were re-inscribed between 1992 and 1996 after 1989. An upstairs exhibition displays children's drawings from the Terezín ghetto. Interior photography is restricted out of respect for the memorial.
How long is a visit to Pinkas Synagogue Memorial?
Set aside roughly ~30 min for Pinkas Synagogue Memorial. That covers a good look and the narrated story, and because you set the pace you can always stay on.
Is Pinkas Synagogue Memorial worth your time?
Pinkas Synagogue Memorial is among the 35 narrated highlights the Gingerguide team chose for Prague, so it is worth a look. Hear the story for the context, then ask the AI guide for anything more.
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