Coptic tour in Luxor

Coptic tour in Luxor

Your trip in Luxor will be complete only by visiting Coptic monuments, monasteries and archaeological churches, and you should put it in your program.You will certainly spend a great time there, because you will not only see Coptic religious landmarks, but you will enjoy the green surroundings.

Visit: Luxor Temple, Luxor 23512 Egypt

A guide will take you from your hotel in Luxor to start your religious tour with a visit to the monastery of Saint Anba Pachomius, famous for El-shayeb

Monastery of Saint Pachomius:

The monastery dates back to the fourth century AD .. It is one of the main monasteries built by St. Anba Pachomius ” father of the company ”
The monastery represents an important Bakhoumi era, and history states that the Bakhoumi monasteries had as many as 2,000 monks. The monastery dates back to the 4th century AD.
The breath of St. Anba Pachomius is clearly extended in the folds of the monastery and its leaves

The monastery consists of an archaeological church surrounded by a fence that collects the garden

The church consists of six structures in one half and a cross in front of the temple separated from the courtyard with a wall with small doors and inside the walls there are some stones decorated with crosses and ancient writings
The archaeological church is built on the authentic Coptic heritage, where it is surmounted by 32 dome and has a shrine of the late fathers, the bishops who sat on the chair of Esna
Next step in St. Tawdros (El Mohareb’s) Monastery

The monastery is located behind the city of Habo in the Western desert and about 1 km west of them and up between them Paved beater for the movement of all vehicles.

Inside the walls of the church there are some Pharaonic stones taken from the many Pharaonic temples located in the west bank of Luxor.

There is also a special cemetery in front of the church for the priests who served the monastery

The most famous of them is St. Matthew Basile (departed on 3/4/1968). It also includes the ark of the archaeologist Bahour Labib Habashi, who was buried in this cemetery upon his will. This monastery serves the surrounding villages in addition to being inhabited by a few nuns.

Your next step will be The Monastery of the Saints which is located on Mount El Tod, east of the Nile, 20 km south of Luxor .

The Monastery of Saints is called by this name because there is more than one saint in it where the body of St. Anba Beshay, St. Anba Besantaas, and Anba Source, and these saints lived in this area and sanctified it with their pure prayers.

Once you have set foot in the monastery, you feel like you are in one of the old country houses, where mud bricks were used to build the two churches that make up the monastery.

Finally you will go to Naqada to visit The Monastery of the Holy Archangel Michael in Naqada which is located 4 km southwest of Naqada and the rest of the monastery is the archaeological church. It consists of a small entrance hall from the middle of the western wall entering the main church.

It consists of three structures and a semi-khorse of three domes and a nave

All the domes of the monastery are low of mud brick and the monastery buildings often date back to the 18th and 19th centuries .

At the end of the trip you will transfer to your hotel .

Duration: 9 hours