Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic

Jewish Cemetery- Prague

It was surprisingly small and until 1787 this was the only place that Jews could be buried in Prague and there an estimated hundred thousand bodies (twelve layers deep) and twelve thousand gravestones here.  There is no order to the gravestones at all and they appeared untidy and arbitrary like a mouthful of rotten old teeth pointing randomly in every decrepit direction.

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5 responses to “Weekly Photo Challenge: Relic

  1. We were there several years ago. I found it very moving. It’s a beautiful city though, isn’t it?

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  2. It was fun to read this post after having just visited Prague a few week’s ago. Great story.

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