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Was built on the initiative of Solomon Cohen and the blessing of the Kiev Ghazzali Joseph Sultan. Kenassas built during 1898-1902 years the popular architect Vladislav Gorodetsky and engineer Anton Strauss. Building distinguished by its beauty and luxury finishes in Moorish-Arabic style.

Karaite community in Kiev in 1896, there were 800 people. For the purchase of land for the construction of a residential building and kenassas, income from which would go to charity Karaite community, Cohen has allocated 35 thousand rubles. Despite the fact that in 1897, Cohen was paralyzed, he continued to direct the affairs personally. Solomon Cohen died in 1900. In his will he provided, among other things, and funds to complete the construction of the temple. The case of Solomon Cohen continued his brother, Moses. Total spent on the construction of about 200 thousand rubles.

The construction of the dome was decorated with a remarkable and extraordinary beauty moldings work of the Italian Emilio Sala using fairly expensive at the time material - cement. The base of the dome of the disappeared is still possible to see stucco ornament in the form of an infinite swastika, but it does go to the opposite side of the street. Solemn consecration kenassas made January 27, 1902 Gaham Tauride and Odessa Samuel Pampulha. At a ceremony attended by the Vice-Governor, Mayor, rector of the university, the other "officials».

After the establishment of Soviet power kenassa was closed. Community activities has been discontinued. Since 1926, the building housed the former kenassas political education institution, and later - Puppet Theatre. Since 1952, the building housed a cinema "Dawn". In 1968 the building was reconstructed.

During this time kenassas was caused irreparable harm: forever lost to the brilliant dome of the temple. In the 1970s to kenassas was attached a small room, through which it was easy to enter the building without going through the main entrance.

Currently kenassa misused. Its building occupies the National Union of theatrical figures of Ukraine; also in the building kenassas 1981 House is aktёra.Korotkoe time - in the middle of the 1990s - kenassa provided (on loan), Kiev Progressive Jewish community to celebrate the Jewish religious celebrations (Purim 1994).
Kiev Karaite National Society "Dogunma" defends the right of return of the religious building community. According to the last census in Kiev there are 43 Karaite.

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