Egypt
- Third Church Discovered At Bawit
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) A large new church, monastic burials and a vaulted room filled with Coptic wall paintings - new excavation work at the Monastery of Saint Apollo at Bawit is yielding a wealth of remarkable finds. One of the team members, Dr....
- Happy Coptic Christmas
In the Coptic Orthodox religion Christmas takes place on the 29th of "Kiahk" (a Coptic month), which is equivalent to the 7th of January. Here's the Wikipedia explanation of the dissonance between the two dates: Until the 16th century, 25 December...
- Daily Photo - St Paul's Monastery
The Monastery of St Paul's Monastery is located in the Eastern Desert near the foot of the Red Sea Hills. The monastery is a living and functioning entity, with an intimacy that the more formal Monastery of St Anthony lacks. Past heritage and modern...
- St Anthony's Monastery
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5885"In the barren expanse of the Eastern Desert, under the clarity of a seamless blue sky, lies a historic and often overlooked monastery. Although the monastery ranks amongst travel book highlights,...
- St. Paul Monastery Opens After Renovation
http://tinyurl.com/o7qpf (sis.gov.eg) "The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has re-opened St. Paul Monastery for visits by Egyptian and foreign tourists after three-year renovation works. Founded in the 4th century in the shape of a fort among the...
Egypt
Travel: St Paul's Monastery, Eastern Desert
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/827/feature.htm
"Located in the Eastern Desert, Saint Paul Monastery remains one of the most popular in Egypt, attracting a regular horde of visitors tempted as much by the desert journey as by the architectural and spiritual experience. In AD 250 -- so the story goes -- the saint fled Alexandria from the wrath of the heathen Emperor Decius; he was only 16. He found a place of hermitage in a cave flanked by a palm tree and a spring, where, nearly a century later in AD 343 he was eventually joined by Saint Anthony, who saw him come out of the cave in a dream and found his way to him. . . . Not so long ago a visitor could only get to Saint Paul by hiring a camel in Beni Sueif; a separate, 25km journey was required to get to Saint Anthony. Today the Al-Sukhna Highway reduces the journey to a straightforward 120km drive. The monastery had been closed for restoration work until 2006, when it reopened: Qummous Daniel offers a complete tour of the premises, featuring the waterwheel and rock art of ancient monks, as well as a full historical account of the site."
See the above page for the full story.
I put phootgraphs from my November 2006 trip to the Monasteries of St Anthony and St Paul on the site below:
I put phootgraphs from my November 2006 trip to the Monasteries of St Anthony and St Paul on the site below:
www.coptic.cd2.com
- Third Church Discovered At Bawit
Heritage Key (Owen Jarus) A large new church, monastic burials and a vaulted room filled with Coptic wall paintings - new excavation work at the Monastery of Saint Apollo at Bawit is yielding a wealth of remarkable finds. One of the team members, Dr....
- Happy Coptic Christmas
In the Coptic Orthodox religion Christmas takes place on the 29th of "Kiahk" (a Coptic month), which is equivalent to the 7th of January. Here's the Wikipedia explanation of the dissonance between the two dates: Until the 16th century, 25 December...
- Daily Photo - St Paul's Monastery
The Monastery of St Paul's Monastery is located in the Eastern Desert near the foot of the Red Sea Hills. The monastery is a living and functioning entity, with an intimacy that the more formal Monastery of St Anthony lacks. Past heritage and modern...
- St Anthony's Monastery
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5885"In the barren expanse of the Eastern Desert, under the clarity of a seamless blue sky, lies a historic and often overlooked monastery. Although the monastery ranks amongst travel book highlights,...
- St. Paul Monastery Opens After Renovation
http://tinyurl.com/o7qpf (sis.gov.eg) "The Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has re-opened St. Paul Monastery for visits by Egyptian and foreign tourists after three-year renovation works. Founded in the 4th century in the shape of a fort among the...