Historic Cities
Walk Vilnius in 1900
AI rebuilds Vilna (Vilnius) street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.
Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk
Vilna — the Jerusalem of the North, 1900
Vilna in 1900 is a crowded provincial capital under the Russian Empire and the foremost centre of Eastern European Jewish learning and print. This walk passes the Gate of Dawn and its pilgrims, the sunken courtyard of the Great Synagogue, Hebrew presses and bookshops, market squares and the wooden suburbs that still fringe the old town.
32 scenes — 20 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Vilnius as it stood in 1900 (“History of Vilnius”).
The route, scene by scene
- 1. Vilna Train Station
- 2. Green Bridge
- 3. Bernardine Garden
- ↳ Bernardine Church Nave · interior
- 4. Gate of Dawn
- ↳ Gate of Dawn Chapel · interior
- 5. Aušros Vartų Street
- 6. Pilies Street
- ↳ Hebrew Presses Press Room · interior
- 7. Town Hall Square
- ↳ Town Hall Great Hall · interior
- 8. Vokiečių Street
- 9. St. Anne's Church
- ↳ St. Anne's Gothic Nave · interior
- 10. Cathedral Square
- ↳ Cathedral Nave and Choir · interior
- 11. Vilnius University Buildings
- ↳ University Lecture Hall · interior
- 12. St. John's Street
- 13. Great Synagogue Courtyard
- ↳ Bimah under the Vault · interior
- ↳ Beit Midrash of Study Houses · interior
- 14. Strashun Library
- ↳ Strashun Library Reading Room · interior
- 15. Pylimo Street
- 16. Hale Market
- ↳ Covered Market Hall · interior
- 17. Naugarduko Street
- 18. Užupis Riverside
- ↳ Užupis Silversmith's Workshop · interior
- 19. Rasos Cemetery
- 20. Gediminas Tower