Walking Around Prague

We've been running pretty hard lately, so we decided to take some time off this morning and just walk around the city.

I had forgotten how beautiful and amazing the architecture is here.

We were in the Jewish Quarter of town, an old section where the Jewish people congregated during WWII. We looked through a gate at the synagogue and saw this massive graveyard.

This is the Jewish synagogue in the old quarter of town.

This tower was built in the 1400's. Some of the places we've seen go as far back as the 1100's. I can't imagine anything being that old!

A concert hall on the waterfront. It's very beautiful.

This is one of my favorite places in Prague. This is St. Wencelas Square. It was here that 300,000 Czechs gathered in 1989 to protest communism. They all stood out in the square and jingled their keys. I'm not sure of the symbolism of that, but it was effective. What is called now the "Velvet Revolution" because of its quiet and smooth transition, took place, and communism was toppled, all starting from this square.

In this same square, two students in 1968 set themselves on fire to protest the communists taking over the city. A memorial for them is at the base of the rose garden.

You may remember from an earlier post, all of our service projects in Slovakia. We're happy to report that we've had enormous success from them! In particular, the technical college that we helped to clean up, offered the missionaries a classroom to teach the gospel on campus one night every week for as long as they want. Now when you walk on campus, you can see posters for the church and it's weekly class. The missionaries are very excited!