Talk:Wołpa Synagogue

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Where is Wolpa? Maria and Kazimierz Piechotka, Heaven’s Gate: Wooden Synagogues in the Territory of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wydawnnictwo Krupski I S-ka, Warsaw, 2004 have a map that places it Neman River upstream form Grodno.

Moshe Verin puts it in Belarus http://www.zchor.org/verbin/verbin2.htm

Shmuel Spector's Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (p.1461) puts it in the part of the bialystok district that is now Belarus.Historicist (talk) 16:11, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

But... the Piechotkas were important scholars, who lived and wrote in Poland.Historicist (talk) 16:12, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning, Carol Herselle Krinsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985, Dover Publications, 1996, p. 225 ff. also says Belarus, but the Piechotkas are so authoritative.Historicist (talk) 16:19, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wolpa is a town in Belarus in Hrodna Voblast. SlavPoland (talk) 12:39, 31 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, I think that the Wolpa Synagogue was built in the 17th century (1643), not in the 18th as stated in the article. Please check, thanks, ajnem (talk) 15:10, 18 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]