- A
kenesa (Karaim: כְּנִיסָא kǝnîsāʾ) is an
Eastern European or
Persian Karaite synagogue.
Kenesas are
similar to
Rabbinical synagogues. In
Eastern Europe...
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Vilnius Kenesa (Lithuanian:
Vilniaus kenesa) is a
Karaite Judaism Kenesa in Žvėrynas, one of the
neighborhoods of Vilnius,
which was
consecrated in 1923...
- The
Karaite Kenesa of Kyiv is a
former Karaite Jewish Synagogue, or
kenesa,
located at
Yaroslaviv Val
Street 7,
close to the
Golden Gates of Kyiv, in the...
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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...
- by secularization. This
process continued in the USSR when most of the
kenesas were closed. In 1928
secular Karaim philologist Seraya Shapshal was elected...
- in Vilnius, Lithuania,
includes existing places of
worship – churches, synagogues,
kenesas – even if they are no
longer used for
religious purposes....
- call it a sinagoga.
Persian Jews and some
Karaite Jews also use the term
kenesa,
which is
derived from Aramaic, and some
Mizrahi Jews use
kenis or qnis...
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often synonymous with synagogue, but
especially non-Orthodox ones. The term
kenesa, from the
Aramaic for '****embly', is used to
describe the
places of worship...
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prominent since Lithuanian independence, and have
restored their kenesas (e.g. the
Vilnius Kenesa). It is safe to say that I have been in
Vilnius all my life...
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Karaim community increased to 300[clarification needed]. Trakai's
Karaim kenesa is a rare
example of a
surviving wooden synagogue with an
interior dome...
