Chufut-Kale
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Chufut-Kale is a medieval city-fortress in the Crimean Mountains that now lies in ruins. It is a national monument of Crimean Karaites culture just 3 km (1.9 mi) east of Bakhchysarai.
Chufut-Kale cave city
Close-up view of the kenassas
Inside a cave
One of the kenassa buildings
Crimean Karaites
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The Crimean Karaites or Krymkaraylar, also known as Karaims and Qarays, are an ethnicity of Turkic-speaking adherents of Karaite Judaism in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in the territory of the old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Crimea. "Karaim" is a Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Polish and Lithuanian name for the community.
Karaite men in traditional garb, Crimea, 19th century.
Cemetery near Feodosia (Crimea)
Former Karaim Kenesa in Kyiv
Showcase of the Crimean Karaites traditional lifestyle in Trakai, Lithuania