Old Jewish cemetery Smíchov

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The Jewish cemetery in Prague-Smíchov (2012)

The Old Jewish Cemetery Prague-Smíchov is a cemetery in Smíchov (German Smichow ), a district of the Czech capital Prague west of the Vltava River .

There are around 600 tombstones in the 1531 m² Jewish cemetery , which was laid out in 1788 . It was used for burials until the beginning of the 20th century and was finally replaced by the New Jewish Cemetery in Prague-Smíchov , which opened in 1903 in the Malvazinky Cemetery .

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Coordinates: 50 ° 3 ′ 30 ″  N , 14 ° 24 ′ 2 ″  E