Old Jewish Cemetery
The Old Jewish Cemetery is one of Europe’s oldest and most densely layered burial grounds, a place where Prague’s Jewish community laid to rest for more than three centuries. Founded in the mid-15th century, the cemetery’s oldest gravestone dates to 1439 and belongs to the rabbi and poet Avigdor Kara, marking its early record in a long line of burials that continues until 1787. The site’s stacked layers reflect a persistent search for space: graves were added atop earlier ones as the community grew, with limited room forcing repeated expansion while preserving the sanctity of the buried. Today the cemetery is administered by the Jewish Museum in Prague, and its significance is acknowledged as a national cultural monument of the Czech Republic. …
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