Abstract
The synagogue of the town of Uhlířské Janovice was built between 1913 and 1914 and from 1943 it serves as a prayer room of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. On its example we wanted to show how a building can be used and interpreted within the theory of collective memory and history.
We searched for the relationships in which from today's perspective it is possible to consider this particular building a part of a live collective memory of a given social context, and when it is necessary to admit that the building is no longer in a specific memory, but its significance depends on whether it does or it doesn't gain a general social recognition as part of a historical consciousness, history of art and culture. We have explored the theory of collective memory, as developed by Jan Assman, in his book Culture and Memory.
During the work we have used our experiences we from the last restoration(2000.