Ceremonial Hall of the Prague Jewish Burial Society, Jewish Museum exhibition hall in Josefov, Czech Republic

The Ceremonial Hall is a museum exhibition space located in Josefov with neo-Romanesque architecture marked by detailed columns, ornate grilles, and distinctive stone work. The building was designed as a ceremonial chamber and displays historical depictions of burial practices on its walls.

The present hall replaced an older building used for the same purpose and was built between 1906 and 1908 to a design by J. Gerstel, executed by A. Gabriel. The Burial Society used it until World War I, then rented it to the Jewish Museum in Prague in 1926. It was restored in 1997.

The hall's name comes from the Prague chevra kadisha, the Jewish Burial Society that commissioned it. The society held its meetings and annual banquets in the second-floor room, while the first floor served for taharah, the ritual purification of the dead. Since 1926 the building has belonged to the Jewish Museum in Prague.

The hall stands beside the Klausen Synagogue at the entrance to the Old Jewish Cemetery in Josefov; a new cemetery gate was built between the two buildings. The exhibition space occupies the upper floors, reached by stairs, and the building is undergoing reconstruction to restore its original appearance and open new exhibits.

The fifteen paintings were commissioned by the Burial Society around 1772 from an anonymous painter working in Baroque style, yet shaped by Enlightenment ideas: they were meant to show the Society's centuries-old social role. They also record the final period of burials at the Old Jewish Cemetery.