This article describes kenasses that are located or were located on the territory of modern Ukraine .
In the 1879-80s, a census of parishioners of Karaite temples was conducted. There were 28 temples at that time, with the number of parishioners 8588 people.
At the end of the 19th century , there were only 20 active kenasses in the Russian Empire , 9 of which were in the Crimea . In 1918, there were 9 Karaite communities and 11 kenasses in Crimea.
Currently, 7 kenass buildings have been preserved in Crimea: two in Chufut-Kale , two in Yevpatoriya , one in Simferopol , one in Sevastopol , one in Bakhchisarai . All preserved Crimean kenasses are architectural monuments . Destroyed kenasses - kenassa on Mangup-Kale , Theodosian kenassa , Yalta kenassa , kenassa in Solhat , kenassa in Armyansk , kenassa in Perekop , kenassa in Karasubazar . The oldest surviving Crimean kenasses are kenasses in Chufut-Kale .
In addition to Crimea, kenasses were located in Lutsk , Kiev , Kharkov , Berdyansk , Nikolaev , Kherson , Yekaterinoslav , Odessa and Galich .
List of Kenass of Ukraine
| City | Status | Picture |
|---|---|---|
| Evpatoria | Is acting | |
| Chufut-Kale | Is acting | |
| Kharkiv | Is acting | |
| Kiev | Misused | |
| Sevastopol | Misused | |
| Simferopol | Misused | |
| Berdyansk | Misused | |
| Theodosius | Destroyed | |
| Lutsk | Destroyed | |
| Galich | Destroyed | |
| Bakhchisaray | Misused | |
| Nikolaev | Misused | |
| Odessa | destroyed | |
| Kerch | Destroyed | |
| Kherson | destroyed | |
| Perekop | destroyed | |
| Belogorsk | destroyed | |
| Old Crimea | destroyed |
- Kenassa on Mangup-Kale - destroyed in 1793 , coordinates -
- Yalta kenassa - destroyed. The last ghazan is Solomon Iosifovich Gumush .
- The kenasses in Armyansk were destroyed; in 1880, the oldest Gazan of the Armenian kenassa was Zarah Kharchenko.
Publications
- Album "The complex of Karaite kenasses in Yevpatoria and other kenasses in the world", comp. V.V. Mireyev, Simferopol, 2006 . Archived December 4, 2012.
- Shaitan I. A., “On the Fates of the Karaite Kenasse in the Crimea”, Meshchansky Newspaper. - 1994. - No. 22, March 26. - S. 8 . Archived December 4, 2012.
- Katunina E.V., Katunin Yu.A. REASONS FOR THE ELIMINATION OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES OF KARAIMS IN THE 40-60S. XX century. . Archived December 4, 2012.