- Source: Trakai Kenesa
The Trakai Kenesa is a former Qaraite Jewish congregation and synagogue, or kenesa, located at 30 Karaimų Street, in Trakai, in the Vilnius County of Lithuania.
Designed in the Baroque Revival style, the wooden synagogue was completed in c. 1800, restored in the 1890s. Built on a rectangular plan and covered with a hipped roof with a small annex, the synagogue was larger than the surrounding houses. The building is a rare example of one of the surviving kenesas of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The building now operates as a Jewish museum.
See also
History of the Jews in Lithuania
Lithuanian Jews
Notes
References
Further reading
Kobeckaite, H. (2019). The temples of Lithuanian Karaims – kenesas (in Lithuanian). Translated by Monika Matulevičiūtė. Vilnius.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
External links
Media related to Karaite synagogue in Trakai at Wikimedia Commons
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- Kenesa
- Yahudi Karait
- Trakai Kenesa
- Trakai
- Kenesa
- Vilna Gaon
- Vilnius Kenesa
- Crimean Karaites
- Trakai Historical National Park
- History of the Jews in Lithuania
- Musar movement
- Khmelnytsky Uprising
