Španělská synagoga
Czechia
Look first at the name, because it misleads almost everyone. The Spanish Synagogue, the youngest of the synagogues in the old Jewish Town of Prague's Josefov, was never Spanish in congregation or rite. It owes its name, most likely, to the Moorish style in which it was built, a style used in medieval Spain. Older sources do not call it Spanish at all: they call it the Geistgasse-Tempel, the Temple in Dušní Street. Despite a widespread belief, no Sephardic community ever worshipped here, and the source states plainly that no such community ever existed on Czech territory. You find it on Dušní, beside the Church of the Holy Spirit and the small park holding Jaroslav Róna's monument to Franz Kafka.
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