Voupa
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Voŭpa (Belarusian: Воўпа, Polish: Wołpa, Russian: Вольпа Volpa, Lithuanian: Volpos), also known as Volpe, Wolpe, Wolp, or Woupa, is a town in the Vawkavysk District of Grodno Region, in Western Belarus.[1][2]
uprightWolpa Synagogue, 1920, Second Polish Republic
Voupa was noted for the Wolpa Synagogue, reputed to be the "most beautiful" of the wooden synagogues of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth,[1] a "masterwork" of wooden architecture.[3]
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- ^ a b Carol Herselle Krinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985, Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning, Dover Publications, 1996, p. 225 ff.
- ^ "Voupa, Belarus".
- ^ Thomas C. Hubka, Resplendent Synagogue: Architecture and Worship in an Eighteenth Century Polish Community, by Brandeis University Press, 2003, p. 63
Coordinates: 53°22′N 24°22′E / 53.367°N 24.367°E
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- Populated places in Grodno Region
- Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507–1795)
- Grodnensky Uyezd
- Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939)
- Vawkavysk District
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