Pinkas Synagogue

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Široká 23/3, Staré Město, 110 00 Praha-Praha 1, Czech Republic

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N50° 5' 21.48" E14° 25' 1.2"   (50.0893, 14.417) Start navigation »

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The Pinkas Synagogue (Czech: Pinkasova synagoga) in Prague, Czech Republic was built in about 1535 by Aaron Meshullam Horowitz between his house and the Old Jewish Cemetery. Initially it was a private synagogue of the Horowitz family. Later it was made public and named after Pinkas, rabbi of Prague and grandson of Aaron Horowitz.

Currently it is also a memorial of the victims of the Holocaust: its walls are covered with about 77,000 names of perished Bohemian-Moravian Jews. The memorial constitutes part of the Jewish Museum in Prague.

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