High Synagogue (Prague)

The High Synagogue, also called the Vysoká Synagogue (Vysoká means High in Czech), the official name in Czech: Vysoká synagoga, also known under its German synonym die Hohesynagoge, or as בה"כ גבוה Bet HaKnesset Gvuah in Hebrew or הויכשול Hoykhshil in Yiddish, is a Jewish congregation and synagogue, located on Červená ulice (Red Street), Prague, in the Czech Republic. Used as a synagogue from 1568 until World War II, in the postwar times it has for some time become part of the Jewish Museum of Prague. After being restituted in the 1990s by the Jewish Community of Prague, it has once again been used as a symbol synagogue ever since. It is used on daily basis for services of the members of the orthodox Prague Jewish community. The synagogue was listed as a cultural monument of the Czech Republic in 1992.