sentences:  There, a small (two to three hundred) but valuable collection of Belarusian books brought to England by Fr Česlaus Sipovič was housed in the southward-facing room on the first floor, immediately above the Mission's chapel.The Library served as a study centre and meeting place for the student associations "Žyćcio" and "Ruń", and was used by a number of scholars interested in Belarusian heritage.In the following decade, the book collection increased tenfold and by 1957 was supplemented by subscriptions to all the main periodicals appearing in the BSSR and Belarusian diaspora.