Trakai Kenessa Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 10/9/2011
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is hidden close to one of the few remaining Karaite Kenessas worldwide.

A few hundred of Karaites were kindly invited by Grand Duke Vytautas Didysis to come to Lithuania from the Crimea region. They were offered jobs in the security department as bodyguards over 600 years ago. Karaims settled down in and around Trakai. Amazingly Karaite minority survived until nowdays. One of their very few temples is right by the coords. Initially built in the 14th Century the temple was destroyed by fires several times and last rebuilt in early 19th Century with the major renovation followed around 1904. The cache itself is a magnetized film can, stuck to an iron tube, low. The place is extremely busy at peak season, you may need to adjust your shoe laces in order to safely pick it. Not sure how you get inside to see the interior, it is worth walking a little down the main street and ask someone at the Karaite Ethnological Museum to assist you.

Karaite religion is somewhat in between of Judaism and Islam, they reject the Talmud. You are supposed to remove your footwear before entering the temple. Women pray separately, in the balcony.

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