The main statue of the Jesus on the cross was cast in bronze by Hans Hillger in Dresden after the model made by sculptor Wolf Ernst Brohn in 1628, in an early baroque style.

Both side statues of Virgin Mary and Saint John were added by Emanuel Max in 1861.

In 1696, a Jewish communal leader named Elias Backoffen was forced to pay for the inscription after being accused of blasphemy.

The aleph in the word "Tzva’ot" is backwards, as the letter was removed by the Nazis during the occupation of Czechoslovakia, and later mistakenly placed after the war.

In 2009, explanatory plaques were added in English, Czech and Hebrew after the Mayor of Prague was petitioned by a group of North American rabbis.