The Old Synagogue on Szeroka Street is defined by its heavy, fortress-like exterior, featuring thick masonry walls, exterior buttressing, and high windows designed to withstand siege. As the oldest synagogue still standing in Poland, it…
Jewish Heritage Route
This historic trail traces centuries of Jewish life in Kazimierz by connecting the district's most significant synagogues and cemeteries. You will see landmarks dating from the 15th to the 19th centuries that tell the stories of a once-vibrant community.
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1. Old Synagogue
2. Remah Cemetery
The Remah Cemetery in the Kazimierz district of Kraków is one of the oldest existing Jewish cemeteries in Poland, established between fifteen thirty-five and fifteen fifty-one. You can identify the site by the wall of salvaged, broken…
3. High Synagogue
The High Synagogue on Józefa Street in Kraków is identifiable by the three tall, semicircular windows on its upper level, which look out over the street from the building's facade. Completed in fifteen sixty-three in the late Renaissance…
4. Isaac Jakubowicz Synagogue
The Isaac Jakubowicz Synagogue features a high, stone-walled exterior distinguished by a monumental Baroque portal on Kupa Street. Completed in sixteen forty-four, this building was commissioned by Izaak Jakubowicz, a financier to King…
5. Kupa Synagogue
The Kupa Synagogue stands as a low, rectangular structure built right against a fragment of the old medieval city wall of Kazimierz. Completed in sixteen forty-three, it was the final synagogue constructed while Kazimierz remained an…
6. Tempel Synagogue, Kraków
The Tempel Synagogue at twenty-four Miodowa Street is distinguished by its Moorish Revival façade, featuring horseshoe-arched windows and a superstructure of glazed tiles. Completed in eighteen sixty-two, it was built for the city’s…
7. Szeroka
Szeroka Street is actually an elongated rectangular square, broad enough to earn its name, which translates simply to wide. It functioned for centuries as the commercial and spiritual center of the Jewish community in the district of…
8. Krakow New Jewish Cemetery
The New Jewish Cemetery on Miodowa Street is marked by a long wall of red brick and weathered iron fencing that separates the quiet, tree-lined grounds from the city streets. Established in eighteen hundred on land purchased from the…