Red Village Krasnaya Sloboda deep guide — Mountain Jews’ Passover traditions, Six-Dome Synagogue architecture, and the Gudyalchay River’s 300-year cultural role. The Mountain Jews’ Seasonal Festivals Passover is the festival that most distinctly reveals how 1,500 years of Caucasian isolation transformed a shared Jewish practice into something entirely the community’s own. The Mountain Jews call Passover “Nisonu” in Juhuri — derived from the Hebrew month of Nisan — and their observance carries specific customs that have no direct equivalent in either Ashkenazi or Sephardic tradition. On the 1st of Nisan, families light fires outside their homes — a practice that scholars link to pre-Zoroastrian fire traditions absorbed from their Caucasian neighbours across centuries of…