We have written in the past about the initiative that has constructed in Biłgoraj, Poland, a replica of the destroyed wooden synagogue that once stood in Wolpe, now in Belarus.
It looks just about complete — and here is a video about the process. The film lacks information however; we do not know, really, who is speaking, nor do we see the completed interior.
Biłgoraj was home to the Nobel prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer. The replica synagogue will be part of a “living skansen” complex and will house a Singer Museum and also Museum of Biłgoraj Jews. It also features as part of a “Trail of Borderland Cultures.”
The project as a whole, overseen by the Biłgoraj XXI Foundation, is to recreate a typical village of the region — a “City on the Trail of Borderland Cultures” — as a cultural and commercial venue that will include the museums and replicated synagogue as well as apartments, shops, restaurants, hotel accommodation, and sports facilities. Nearly 2 million zloties in funding has been allocated by the Regional Operational Programme of the Lubelskie Province.
The Foundation’s web site provides a photogallery about the construction of the relica synagogue.
See our post from December 2014