New Jewish Cemetery, Jewish cemetery in Žižkov district, Prague, Czech Republic

The New Jewish Cemetery in Žižkov covers 101,430 m², the largest Jewish cemetery in Czechia, with about 25,000 surviving Art Nouveau gravestones. Its main entrance on Jana Želivského street is a cream masonry gateway with a central arch, gold Hebrew lettering above and a balustrade topped by urn finials. The neo-Renaissance ceremonial hall by Bedřich Münzberger and Alfons Wertmüller stands at the highest point, built 1891–1893.

Founded in 1889 on 74,037 m² and opened on 6 July 1890, two days after the first burial, the cemetery replaced the closed Old Jewish Cemetery in Žižkov. Planned for 100,000 graves, it was enlarged in the 1920s and again in 1933, when a new urn section with its own ceremonial hall was added.

The cemetery is still operated by the Jewish Community in Prague, and its two ceremonial halls mark different eras: the neo-Renaissance hall by Bedřich Münzberger and Alfons Wertmüller (1891–1893) at the main entrance, and Leopold Ehrmann's functionalist hall of 1933 in the eastern section. Behind the first stands the beit tahara, the purification house, and a Neoclassical mortuary used by the funeral society.

The cemetery lies in Žižkov, bounded by Jana Želivského street to the west and Izraelská to the south, next to the former Žižkov freight station. The main entrance with the 1891–1893 ceremonial hall is at the highest point of the grounds; the 1933 functionalist hall stands in the eastern section. It remains in active use, so funerals may restrict access to parts of the site.

The cemetery holds about 25,000 preserved Art Nouveau gravestones, several designed by leading architects such as Jan Kotěra, Josef Fanta and Jan Štursa. Štursa gave the tomb of painter Max Horb the form of a mourning peacock. In 2001 a symbolic tomb was unveiled in the new section, holding remains exhumed from the site of Prague's oldest Jewish cemetery, the so-called Jewish Garden.