Vowpa
Воўпа (Belarusian)
Agrotown
Official seal of Vowpa
Seal
Vowpa is located in Belarus
Vowpa
Vowpa
Coordinates: 53°22′08″N 24°22′18″E / 53.36889°N 24.37167°E / 53.36889; 24.37167
CountryBelarus
RegionGrodno Region
DistrictVawkavysk District
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK)

Vowpa[lower-alpha 1] (Belarusian: Воўпа; Polish: Wołpa; Russian: Вольпа, romanized: Volpa; Lithuanian: Volpos) is an agrotown in Vawkavysk District, Grodno Region, Belarus.[1][2] It serves as the administrative center of Vowpa selsoviet.[3]

Wołpa Synagogue, 1920, Second Polish Republic

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.[4]

Notes

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

References

  1. 1 2 Carol Herselle Krinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985, Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning, Dover Publications, 1996, p. 225 ff.
  2. ↑ "Voupa, Belarus".
  3. ↑ Gaponenko, Irina Olegovna (2004). Назвы населеных пунктаў Рэспублікі Беларусь: Гродзенская вобласць. Minsk: Тэхналогія. p. 127. ISBN 985-458-098-9.
  4. ↑ Thomas C. Hubka, Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth Century Polish Community, by Brandeis University Press, 2003, p. 63
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