Trakai Kenesa

Trakai Kenesa is the kenesa (synagogue) of the Qaraite Jewish community in Trakai, Lithuania, and a rare example of one of the surviving kenesas of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was built in the 18th century, restored in the 1890s and is still in use.[1]

References

  1. ↑ The Karaite Kenessa in Trakai. Vilnius, 2007.

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