Olšany Cemetery and Street Photography, 8.1.2022
Olšany Cemetery (Olšanské hřbitovy in Czech) is the largest graveyard in Prague, once laid out for as many as two million burials. The graveyard is particularly noted for its many remarkable art nouveau monuments. The Olšany Cemeteries were created in 1680 to accommodate plague victims who died en masse in Prague and needed to be buried quickly. In 1787, when the plague again struck the city, Emperor Joseph II banned the burial of bodies within Prague city limits and Olšany Cemeteries were declared the central graveyard for hygiene purposes. [Wikipedia]
The cemetery is part of the blue-colar Žižkov neighborhood, but lies just on its border with the posh neighborhood of Vinohrady.
Burial architecture at the Olšany Cemetery
