The Karaite Synagogue (

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: ''בית הכנסת הקראי באיסטנבול;'' tr, Karahim Sinagogu, Karaim Sinagogu, Karayim Sinagogu) is a

Kenesa 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 ...

in the

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district of

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. The building's date of construction is unclear; it may date to Byzantine times. The building was in ruins in the sixteenth century; it was repaired in 1536, burned in 1729, rebuilt, burned again in 1774, rebuilt between 1776 and 1780, restored in 1842, and burned again in 1918. The Karaite congregation of the town also has their own cemetery.TAU Documentation Project, Karaite Cemetery. 2002 The trust behind these Institutions is called ''Hasköy Türk Karaim Musevi Sinagogu Vakfı''. Today the Kenesa functions only at the Karaite Pesach. Contact to the congregation can be built via the Turkish Chief Rabbinate or the

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*Center for Jewish History Digital Collections, Turkish Synagogues Exhibit
Karaite Synagogue in Hasköy, Istanbul, Exterior
(One of several photographs of the Karaite Synagogue in the Turkish Synagogues Exhibit.) *Center for Jewish History Digital Collections
Karaite Synagogue in Hasköy, Istanbul
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