Chatam Sofer Memorial
Mauzóleum Chatama Sófera | |
Chatam Sofer Memorial complex in Bratislava, Slovakia | |
| Location | Nábrežie armádneho generála Ludvíka Svobodu Street (Official Website: http://www.chatamsofer.sk/) |
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| Coordinates | 48°08′30″N 17°05′30″E / 48.1418°N 17.0918°E |
| Designer | Martin Kvasnica |
| Completion date | 2002 |
| Opening date | July 8, 2002 |
| Dedicated to | Moses Sofer |
| Old Jewish Cemetery | |
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| Details | |
| Established | 17th century |
| Location | Nábrežie armádneho generála Ludvíka Svobodu Street, Bratislava |
| Country | Slovakia |
| Type | mostly demolished in 1943 |
Chatam Sofer Memorial, formerly the Old Jewish Cemetery is the burial place and memorial of Moses Sofer, a prominent orthodox rabbi from the 19th century, built on the site of a 17th-century Jewish cemetery in Bratislava, Slovakia. The historical cemetery was mostly destroyed with the construction of the road tunnel under Bratislava Castle in 1943 but negotiations with the clero-fascist Slovak leader Jozef Tiso allowed an important fraction of the cemetery containing the graves of the rabbis to be preserved encased in concrete. Later, when the tunnel was converted for public transport trams a tram stop was constructed above the site. In 2002 a modern memorial was erected above the site and it was partially opened to the public.