Abu Fana Monastery,EGYPT

Abu Fana Monastery,EGYPT

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The cloister is found within the Western Desert shortly from the land of the river depression planted, that is found regarding three hundred kilometer south of Cairo, and northwest Ashmunein, and regarding a pair of kilometer from the village, "Hor Palace", and east of the village of "Bani Khalid"

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Establishment and history

Built the cloister in all probability regarding memorial park "Abu Fana", as found on his grave throughout excavations administered by the "Institute of anthropology Austrian" in Cairo in 1992. [1] mentions Abu Makarem [twelfth century] that the Church "Abu Fana" remodeled by Rashid Abu most popular. He wrote Maqrizi, Egyptian scholarly person, the fourteenth century - XV] for field of study kind lovely shown by the cloister. [2] indicates book "History of the Patriarchs Egyptian church" to the cloister, "Abu Fana" twice: the primary time relating to the election of the Patriarch "Theodosius II ", Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Catholic Church (1294-1300), and also the second time with reference to childhood Patriarch Mtaús I (1378-1408). it's aforesaid that the cloister was regarding one thousand a monk, in pre-Islamic times, and reduced numbers wherever a big contraction before the introduction of Islam within the seventh century; Maqrizi indicates that he wasn't there within the cloister, in his day, only monks.

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The French Jesuit priest Father Michel Marie Jules (1827-1911) to a neighboring village priest (Hor Palace) scour the Church of trash and used for "Divine Liturgy". [3]

 

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When the German man of science Dr.. Otto Meinardus

 visit "Abu Fana" within the sixties of the 20th century, the cloister was a wreck with the remnants unfold over a large space. deed solely historic church. And additionally found items of grey granite, that indicates that the cloister might are engineered on the location that was once the traditional temple. And on alittle upland no part Palace, or tower, had ancient monasteries. And regarding eighty meters from the shattered realize a cave cloister of Abu Fana, an area that is alleged to be "Abu Fana" lived. He failed to refer Meinardus to the cloister populous. [4]

The remaining building of the previous cloister consists of the Church of the Basilica of the previous sink deeply within the sand within the middle of the massive mound "no doubt" it, in keeping with the Coptic book of facts, obscured by trash cloister. maybe neighboring hills obscured silos or separate Alqlala. [5]

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Modern History

Began the trendy history of the cloister with a revived interest within the Coptic Orthodox Catholic Church during this cloister within the wake of the drilling operations administered by the "Helmut Bochhausn" and his team of "the Austrian anthropology Institute" within the amount 1987-1992. when drilling operations, determined "the Supreme Council of Antiquities" Egyptian in a pair of000 that defines a vicinity of ​​1 x 2 kilometer because the field anthropology monastery; suspected "the Supreme Council of Antiquities," in this this land might carry historic remains square measure buried. [Map] [6] and when the choice, "the Supreme Council of Antiquities," woman Coptic Orthodox Catholic Church Galali new, and input new, and a room, and also the Cathedral of huge outside field anthropology directly [Image - Comment: buildings of the cloister engineered from 2000 ahead. Before 1999, doesn't have any permanent resident monk at the cloister; 5 monks came to the monastery in 1999, and in 2003 to draw Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Catholic Church, twelve alternative monks, then later a monk last. From 2003 ahead, recurrent conflicts on the bottom with the monastery's neighbors. In Gregorian calendar month 2008, there's a grand total consists of eighteen monks and nine starters in austerity reside within the cloister, and helps tens of profane [ie those that don't seem to be clerics. [7]

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