LOCATION / AREA
Center, Midtown
PRICE RANGE
Budget
SIGHTSEEING LABEL
Cemetery / Mausoleum
DISTANCE FROM AIRPORT
6.3km
DISTANCE FROM SARAJEVO BUS STATION
1.2km
Distance from the center
758m
NEAREST PUBLIC TRANSPORT STATION
Trolleybus station Kovacici - 317m
The cemetery was founded in 1630, and its oldest preserved tombstones mark the graves of the first rabbi of Sarajevo, Samuel Baruch, and his contemporary, Machah Mučačon.
What makes this cemetery unique the world over is that the shape and motifs of the tombstones very closely resemble the medieval Bosnian stećci. This is due to the fact that the cemetery was founded in the vicinity of the medieval necropolis in Borak, where many stećci used to stand.
On the highest point of the cemetery grounds there is a white pyramid, a monument dedicated to the Jews who fell fighting during World War II and the victims of Fascism who perished in concentration camps.
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