This is the second largest Jewish cemetery in Europe, after the one in Prague.

Jewish Cemetery, old part - since 1630

The year in which it was opened is recorded as 1630. The primary sources for the study of the cemetery have been locked and destroyed, praticulary in 1941, when the “Book of the Dead” which had been meticulously coped out by Moše Altarac, secretary of the Sephardi Community ond of the “Hevra kadiša” funeral society, was burned in the ruins of the Great Sephardi Synagogue in Sarajevo.

Jewish Cemetery, new part

The cemetery came into being alongside a medieval necropolis of stećak tombstones in Borak, by the old quarry in Šatorija.

The tombstones of Bosnia’s Sephardi Jews differ in form and in the motifs they bear from Jewish tombstones in other parts of the world. The likely reason for this is the intermingling of diverse cultural surroundings in which the Sephardim lived with their own traditions.

Jewish Cemetery, Chapel

In 1952 a monument to the victims of fascist terror, the work of Jahiel Finci, was erected in the cemetery.

The large mausoleum was designed by Zlatko Ugljen in 1962, and was erected following the exhumation of the old and new Ashkenazi cemeteries.

The cemetery was closed to further burial in 1966.