Persian Jewish and Crimean Karaite equivalent to synagogue
Karaite kenesa in Lutsk (Ukraine)Interior of Malaya (Small) kenesa in Yevpatoria, Crimea.
A kenesa (Karaim: כְּנִיסָא kǝnîsāʾ) is an Eastern European or Persian Karaite synagogue.
Kenesas are similar to Rabbinical synagogues. In Eastern Europe, they are laid out along north-south axis (facing Jerusalem). Starting from the northern entrance, a kenesa contains:
Vestibule (azar), where worshipers take off their shoes. Shoes are not permitted anywhere further.
Moshav Zeqenim (מושב זקנים, old men's pews): wooden benches for the old and the mourners, usually under a low ceiling. The loft above this ceiling is reserved for the women, who remain invisible to the men on the main floor.
Shulḥan (Hebrew: שולחן "table"): the main hall. Traditional Karaite worship was performed on the knees. In the past, kenesa floors were carpeted; modern kenesas have pews in the main hall.[citation needed]
Hekhal, or altar (היכל): raised stand for the ritual Ark and the priest.
Some kenesas also have a rood screen.[citation needed]
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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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...
(Midrash), charity dining, household courtyards, and multiple courtyards. The kenesa has been a centre of the religious life of the Karaites of Yevpatoria since...
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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movement, except very few such as donning a head covering in the Karaite kenesa. Those Karaites Jews who are new to the Karaite lifestyle do not have such...
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in Vilnius, Lithuania, includes existing places of worship – churches, synagogues, kenesas – even if they are no longer used for religious purposes....
the religious elder Aziz Salgir-Baba Ner Tomid Synagogue [ru] Simferopol Kenesa [uk] The city of Simferopol continues to be known as Aqmescit in the Crimean...
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