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Prague

History's Greatest Cities

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The Jubilee Synagogue and the Old Town Square

The Jubilee synagogue was built in 1906 and designed by the architect, Wilhelm Stenitzi. It's a wonderful example of what is called the Moorish Revival. If you go to the outside of the National Museum up at the top of Oxlowski-Namisti or Wenchislav Square, you can see traces of bullet holes from the Prague Spring Rebellion in 1968.

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