Voupa
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Voupa (alternative spellings: Wołpa, Volpe, Wolpe, Wolp, Woupa or Voupa) is a town in the Vawkavysk District of Grodno Region, in Western Belarus.[1][2]
File:Wolpa Synagogue Poland 1920.jpg
Wolpa Synagogue, 1920, Second Polish Republic
It 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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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Carol Herselle Krinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985, Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning, Dover Publications, 1996, p. 225 ff.
- ↑ http://www.belarusguide.com/cities/voupa.html
- ↑ 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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