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Španělská synagoga

Španělská synagoga

Also known as Spanish Synagogue

Year

1868

Style

Moorish Revival

Type

building

The Spanish Synagogue is the most lavish of Prague's Moorish Revival buildings, raised in 1868 on the site of the Old School, the city's oldest house of prayer. Ullmann and Niklas gave it a compact square plan crowned by a central dome…

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Timeline

  1. 1868

    Original construction

    Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann, Josef Niklas

  2. 1882

    Installation

    The gilded polychrome arabesque covering the interior walls and dome was designed and executed as an elaborate Islamic-inspired decorative scheme.

    Antonín Baum, Bedřich Münzberger

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