Karaim kenasa in Vilnius, Lithuania (Liubarto 6)
The Vilnius kenasa is located in a two-storey neighborhood in the Žvėrynas quarter, in Polish Zwierzyniec = the game reserve of the local nobility. The Karaim are a people of Turkic origin who, according to tradition, were brought to Lithuania by the Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas, Witold in Polish, during one of his military expeditions to the Crimea at the end of the 14th century. Several…
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