EVPATORIA
The long history of Eupatoria, in the north west of the Crimea, started 2 600 years ago. The Greeks founded the ancient colony of "Kerkintis", the ruins of which one can visit today. When the troops of the Khan of Crimea invaded the region in 1275, a fortress and a medieval market town were built on the foundations of the ancient colony. The relics of this postponed epoch are still visible in architecture in the centre of the town. Yevpatoria has always been a multicultural city, where lived in harmony the Tatars, karaïtes, Jews, Turks, Russians and Armenians. You can continue your walk by discovering the religious buildings of Yevpatoria. The close location of the places of worship of different confessions in Yevpatoria, that is of the mosque, synagogue, as well as the orthodox and Armenian churches, has given to this district the name of "Small Jerusalem".
The Djuma-Djami mosque with kazantipvoyage.com
It was built having as a model the cathedral of St Sophie in Istanbul. The work was headed by the famous Turkish architect Sinan, who built more than 300 splendid buildings in Istanbul, Edirne and other cities of the Muslim world.
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Church of St Nicolas with kazantipvoyage.com
Situated in the very centre of the town, this church was built shortly after the Crimean war to commemorate the liberalisation of the town in 1856 of the French-turco-English troops.
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Kenessas, places of worship of karaïmes with kazantipvoyage.com
Karaïmes is the turcophone people that inhabited the cavern city of Chufut Qale in the vicinity of Bakhchisarai in the 14th century. In the 18th century karaïmes left the high platoes and went to settle in the other cities of the Crimea. The most important community was at Evpatoria, that explains the building of many kenassas of different size. Today, there is less than a thousand of karaïmes throughout the Crimea. Though karaïmes follow their traditions, their language and their morals of turcophone people, they have a very close link with Judaism. The feature of karaïtes is that they do not admit the Talmud, and consider Thora, that is five books of Moses, as being the one and only foundation of their religion.
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Tarkhankout with kazantipvoyage.com
Tarkhankout is the in the West of Crimea. His splendid nature leaves noone indifferent. You will be able to visit underwater caves, admire kinds of figurines born by erosion, beaches of white sand and the azure blue bays. Access to Tarkhankout was prohibited during the Soviet period, and nowadays it is the paradise for the swimmers, surfers and divers. Cliffs rise up to 30 m above the surface of the water, and the Coast is carved by many coves and bays. The rocks form kinds of arks that give a direct access to the sea. At Tarkhankout, you will be able to admire the ruins of an ancient Greek city, the ruins of "Kalos-Limen", a Scythian tomb, as well as a headlight of 42 m of height, built in 1816 of calcareous stone of Inkermann (near Sébastopol).
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