Klausen Synagogue
In Klausen Synagogue once stood a Baroque synagogue in the Jewish ghetto, completed in 1689 and named after the kloyz complex that preceded it. The building rose as Prague rebuilt after a great fire of the ghetto, with the Torah Ark added in 1696 thanks to the endowment of Samuel Oppenheimer, a prominent figure in the Austrian monarchy. In 1883–84, architect Bedřich Münzberger led a reconstruction that preserved the structure amid urban renewal that swept away many surrounding synagogues, leaving Klausen as the sole Baroque survivor of its milieu. The Klausen Synagogue later became central to Jewish life as the ghetto transformed, and in 1984 the former synagogue was repurposed as a Jewish museum administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague. UNESCO recognizes the Historic Centre of Prague as a World Heritage Site, inscribed in 1992, highlighting the broader historical significance of the area. …
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