Balaq (בלק), Numbers 22:2–25:9
כד ה מַה-טֹּבוּ אֹהָלֶיךָ, יַעֲקֹב; מִשְׁכְּנֹתֶיךָ, יִשְׂרָאֵל.
24-5 How beautiful are your tents, O Jacob! Your dwellings, O Israel!
So beautiful! A jewel in the Arab-Andalusian style. The Spanish Synagogue was designed by the architects Vojtěch Ignác Ullmann and Josef Niklas in 1868. It presents an incredible interior decoration with its stucco arabesques, its gildings, its stylized oriental motifs. After an initial renovation of 20 years and a reopening in 1998, the synagogue is undergoing a new but less extensive renovation in 2020.
On the first floor are exhibited no fewer than 6,000 pieces, the work of 13 generations of goldsmiths from Bohemia and Moravia.
