Trip to Naqada Monasteries

Trip to Naqada Monasteries

He took advantage of the opportunity to visit the Coptic city Qian , a village of Naqada, where it possesses a lot of Christian archaeological civilizations where it was called the “Holy City” and was an independent Diocese of the Diocese until the seventeenth century. Naqada is filled with monasteries spreading within 15 kilometers, where there are seven monasteries belonging to the Diocese of Naqada, which survive with its timeless relics, despite the disappearance of many monasteries through time.
Enjoy that fun visit to those monasteries

Visit: Egyptalum, .، NAGAA HAMADY، Qena, New Valley Governorate, Egypt

A guide will take you from your hotel in Luxor to start your religious tour with a visit to the monastery of  "The Cross and St. Shenouda"

Monastery of " The Cross and St. Shenouda", west of Naqada, Qena

The value of this monastery is very great, as some accounts have stated

This monastery is one of the oldest monasteries named after the cross, and was built by Queen Helena, mother of King Constantine

The Monastery of " The Cross " was established in the fourth century and is the only monastery in the name of the cross in Egypt and the second church in the world after the Church of Jerusalem.

The Monastery of " The Cross " is a historic breakthrough and visitors from all over the world come to it as a tourist attraction to see the history of Egypt through the ages.

Monastery of St. George (also Deir al-Magma'), west of Naqada

It is located south of the Monastery of the Holy Cross and north of the Monastery of Mari Buqtur

Located above a high area of ​​sand at a height of about 6 meters allows its high location to oversee the rest of the monasteries scattered in the desert and called the "complex" monastery due to the fact that it is based on the management of the group of monasteries in the region

It was called the Monastery of the "complex "where it is said to have been a storehouse for the other monasteries. There are three churches in the monastery, the Church of the Virgin Mary and the Church of John the Baptist in the western corner of the monastery

The Monastery of Saint Victor " Mari Buqtur "

The next significant monastery, located on a hill above the nature of the region topped by a distance of 10 meters or more, which gives a breathtaking view across the Nile Valley as it overlooks vast areas of agricultural land and the visitor to see the magic of this magnificent view in the dawn moments before sending the sun for its initial rays and also in the moments of sunset

The monastery buildings are one of the oldest existing buildings of Naqada monasteries and their construction is confirmed on the archaeological hill which contains many of the archaeological roof and the remains of the old buildings

The monastery of Saint Elias Bishoyawy originated as a wild church for this great martyr in the late fourth century AD, but in the following centuries the church became a monastery with its contents

One historian attributed the present building of the monastery church to the eighth or ninth century on the basis of the form of the apse

In its architecture, the new church assembled domes and vaults

 

Your next step will be The Monastery of the Holy Archangel Mickhael  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 .

There are some archaeological columns inside the monastery church, which indicates that the monastery has a very ancient history

You will take a short break for lunch in a local restaurant

Your next step will be The monastery of St . Anba Andras ( Abou El Leif‏ )

The Monastery of Saint Abou El Leif is located just east of monastery of the cross  and about 100 m east of it. The church is located in the middle of the ring wall.

After truncating the room in the western corner of the church next to the entrance

The courtyard of the monastery has a tree that yields some plants such as dates and is said to heal diseases . The monastery officials say that the age of the tree is unknown and people from all over the world come to the monastery to visit the monastery and take a blessing from the sacred tree to cure their diseases.

After that you will  The monastery of  St Pisentius The monastery church was built in the seventh or eighth century AD is what remains of the old church with twelve dome. There is a mountain in the west of the monastery many traces of monasteries and caves destroyed and many of the Coptic pottery, which was dearly remains of the monastic life of the area of Naqada .

The body of  St Pisentius is located under the central altar of the monastery church and the monastery receives archaeological and pastoral attention

Final step : Monastery of the great martyr Abu Sefen

Monastery of the great martyr Abu Sfeen is located 10 km west of Naqada, about 200 meters southeast of the monastery of St. George complex, and the ratio of the monastery to the Bishop Bisanti wearing the spirit Bishop of Qeft, which I recommend his student to bury this place and not to go elsewhere His disciples built a dome above his grave to be a shrine for them. Then the guide will take you back to the hotel

Duration: 10 hours