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Karaite Kenessa in Trakai
Object Detail

Building Date
1800-1900?

Synagogue active dates

Reconstruction Dates

Architect/ Maker
Unknown (Unknown)

Community

Location
Lithuania | Vilnius County | Trakai
| 30 Karaimų St.

Style

Material/Technique

Construction Material
Timber

Summary and Remarks

Suggested Reconsdivuction

History/Provenance

Condition

Present Usage
Synagogue

Present Usage Details

Historical significance: Event/Period

Historical significance: Collective Memory/Folklore

Historical significance: Person

Architectural Significance: Style

Architectural Significance: Artistic Decoration

Urban significance
Part of Jewish street

Significance Rating
3 (National)

Condition of Building Fabric
A (Good)

Bibliography
CJA; Michailas Zajončkovskis, Karaimų Kenese Trakuose - The Karaite Kenessa in Trakai (Trakai, n.d [2004?]); Dovid Katz, Lithuanian Jewish Culture (Vilnius: Baltos Lankos, 2004), ill. on p. 372-373; Gershon David Hundert (ed. in chief), The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2008), vol.2, ill. on p. 1898; Israel Cohen, Vilna (Philadelphia, 1943), p. 464-466

Short Name
Full Name
Volume
Page
Biography

Photographer
Photograph Date
1993

Remarks

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