Vowpa ( be, Воўпа; pl, Wołpa; russian: Вольпа, Volpa; lt, Volpos) is an

agrotown An agro-town is an agglomeration in a rural environment with a population of several thousands but whose workforce's main occupation is agriculture. An agro-town also lacks the administrative, commercial and industrial functions that are usually ...

in Vawkavysk District, Grodno Region, Belarus.Carol Herselle Krinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985, ''Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning'', Dover Publications, 1996, p. 225 ff. It serves as the administrative center of Vowpa

selsoviet Selsoviet ( be, сельсавет, r=sieĺsaviet, tr. ''sieĺsaviet''; rus, сельсовет, p=ˈsʲelʲsɐˈvʲɛt, r=selsovet; uk, сільрада, silrada) is a shortened name for a rural council and for the area governed by such a cou ...

The

Wołpa Synagogue The Wołpa Synagogue was a synagogue located in the town of Voŭpa, in what is now western Belarus.Carol Herselle Krinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985, ''Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning'', Dover Publications, 19 ...

is located in the town, and is reputed to be the "most beautiful" of the

wooden synagogues of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin tha ...

, a "masterwork" of wooden architecture.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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* http://www.belarusguide.com/cities/voupa.html Populated places in Grodno Region category:Nowogródek Voivodeship (1507–1795) Grodnensky Uyezd Białystok Voivodeship (1919–1939) Vawkavysk District Agrotowns in Belarus {{Belarus-geo-stub