Vowpa

Vowpa lies on the Volpyanka, a tributary of the Ros in the Grodno country. In 1449 Grand Duke Casimir granted the estate to Olekhno Sudimontovich, later chancellor of Lithuania. In 1624 Lew Sapieha acquired it for his son Kazimierz. A magnificent wooden synagogue rose in the town in the early eighteenth century, its carved interior a testament to the craft and religious life of the Jewish community. In 1792 King Stanisław August granted Vowpa Magdeburg rights and a coat of arms bearing a beaver on a blue field.