Sentence Examples

  • The Jews of the Karaite sect differ entirely from the orthodox Jews both in worship and in mode of life.
  • Two and a half miles to the east is Chufut-Kaleh (or Jews' city), formerly the chief seat of the Karaite Jews of the Crimea, situated on lofty and almost inaccessible cliffs; it is now deserted except by the rabbi.
  • Includes many Jews, the Karaite sect having here their principal synagogue.
  • Of its numerous ecclesiastical buildings three are of interest - the synagogue of the Karaite Jews; one of the mosques, which has fourteen cupolas and is built (1552) after the plan of St Sophia in Constantinople; and the Greek Catholic cathedral (1898).
 
 

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