Vowpa

Vowpa[lower-alpha 1] (Belarusian: Воўпа; Polish: Wołpa; Russian: Вольпа, romanized: Volpa; Lithuanian: Volpos) is a town in Vawkavysk District, Grodno Region, Belarus.[1][2]

Wołpa Synagogue, 1920, Second Polish Republic
Coat of arms

The Wołpa Synagogue is located in the town, and is reputed to be the "most beautiful" of the wooden synagogues of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth,[1] a "masterwork" of wooden architecture.[3]

Notes
  1. Also spelled Voŭpa, Volpe, Wolpe, Wolp, or Woupa

References
  1. Carol Herselle Krinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985, Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning, Dover Publications, 1996, p. 225 ff.
  2. "Voupa, Belarus".
  3. Thomas C. Hubka, Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth Century Polish Community, by Brandeis University Press, 2003, p. 63

53°22′N 24°22′E

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