Practical info

Type of location: Cemetery

Jewish Cemetery of Sofia

Zavodskya St. 14, Sofia

Historical description

Sofia

Jews reached Sofia during the first centuries C.E., the era of Roman domination. Ashkenazic Jews emigrating from Hungary and Bavaria were joined in the fifteenth century by Sephardic Jews fleeing the Spanish Inquisition. Until 1890, they lived in a sort of ghetto, ... Read more