Sarajevo is a center for different cultures. That is why there are a lot of treasures from Jewish origin too. Maybe the most valuable of them are the Old Synagogue and the Old Jewish cemetery.

The construction of the first synagogue in Sarajevo, known as Il Kal Grandi, began in 1581, with the permission of the Imperial divan (government).  It acquired its present shape in the early 19th century. In 1966, the synagogue was turned into the Jewish Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The old Sephardic (jewish people who came from Spain) cemetery is an important Jewish memorial complex. The oldest surviving tombstone here (of the first rabbi of Sarajevo) dates from the mid-17th century. What makes this cemetery unique is the shape of the tombstones, found nowhere else but in Bosnia and Herzegovina.