Metadata: Maisel Synagogue
Collection
- Country:
- Czechia
- Holding institution:
- Archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague
- Holding institution (official language):
- Archiv Židovského muzea v Praze
- Postal address:
- Stroupežnického 32, Praha 5, 150 00
- Phone number:
- 00420222749111
- Web address:
- http://www.jewishmuseum.cz/
- Email:
- office@jewishmuseum.cz
- Reference number:
- 184
- Title:
- Maisel Synagogue
- Title (official language):
- Maiselova synagoga
- Creator/accumulator:
- Maisel Synagogue
- Date(s):
- 1763/1941
- Language:
- German
- Czech
- Hebrew
- Yiddish
- Extent:
- 0.42 linear metres
- Physical condition:
- poor
- Scope and content:
- The fonds contains an inventory of synagogue property, a Hazkara, financial books, an invitation to celebrate the dedication of the rebuilt Maisel Synagogue, synagogue seating plans and fragmentary files.
- Archival history:
- The records came to the archives of the Jewish Museum in Prague during the Second World War as part of shipments of material from Jewish communities and organisations that had been disbanded.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Maisel Synagogue was built in 1590–1591, having been commissioned by Mordecai Maisel at the end of his life. It was the most ostentatious building in Prague's Jewish Town. It was destroyed in a ghetto fire in 1689. The rebuilt building was a third smaller in length. The synagogue was fundamentally rebuilt in 1862–1864 (to a design by J. M. Wertmüller) and in 1895–1905 (to a Neo-Gothic design by Alfred Grotte) in connection with the urban renewal of the Jewish Town. During the Second World War it was probably used as a warehouse. After the war it housed a depository and, from the 1960s, one of the Jewish Museum's exhibitions.
- Access points: locations:
- Prague
- Subject terms:
- Hazkarah
- Jewish community
- Jewish community records
- Synagogues
- Access, restrictions:
- Partly accessible
- Finding aids:
- Hamáčková, V: Maiselova synagoga, Prozatímní inventární seznam, 1986, 2 s., ev. č. 184.
- Yerusha Network member:
- Jewish Museum Prague
- Author of the description:
- JMP Survey, 2015.
