The Monastery Deir Al-Sabaa Banat in Sinai, Egypt | Facts, history of the most important Coptic monuments, what is inside and more…
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The monastery (Deir El-Sabaa Banat) in South Sinai, one of the most important Christian monasteries in the minds of tourists, is interested in visiting it to bless the sacred religious place.
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The Monastery Deir Al-Sabaa Banat:
Deir AL-Sabaa Banat, a Christian monastery in South Sinai, consists of a rectangular hall through a wooden veil, the first of which leads to an entrance on the south side, and closes two ordinary wooden doors leading to a small square-shaped room topped with a mosaic image of the martyr Mar Guirguis (St. George).
To the east there is a door leading to a reception hall with only six windows in the north and south walls, where there are three in each wall on its north side, led by a wooden space with an entrance leading to a religious shrine and in its south side, a small place prepared to be a place to light the candles of visitors.
Built in the Valley of Wady Feeran since the 4th century AD and the first and largest Christian center of the peninsula, the monastery was built at the same time as the monastery of St. Catherine as the residence of the monks, and the monastery receives great attention and all the nuns are from Europe come to visit it, and the monastery has a large place between the monasteries of the world.
What do you see when you enter the monastery of Deir El-Sabaa Banat?
Located in the village of Wadi Feeran in Abu Redis, south Sinai province, Deir al-Sabaa Banat is an oasis of beauty and an architectural and archaeological masterpiece, covered with greenery on either side and olive and fruit farms dependent on rain and wells.
As you can see when you enter the monastery, very beautiful mountain ranges, and while you are in the monastery, you will feel a lot of spirituality, because this place was considered the favored destination of the nuns and the passage of the first hermits from the countries of Europe, especially Greece and Romania.
This may be the secret to naming the monastery as well, where there were many nuns, and there are currently five nuns, including four Greek sisters and one Romanian, and more in the monastery there are 5 churches other than two churches on the mill mountain surrounding the monastery.
Reason for denomination
Seven nuns have lived in the monastery since Roman times, persecuted by the Romans and tempted to attack them by bandits and criminals, who climbed a mountain, led rats, tied their clothes together and threw themselves from the top of the mountain.
What do you see inside the monastery of Deir El-Sabaa Banat?
The monastery of Deir El-Sabaa Banat is characterized by the abundance of water from the wells and springs that feed the gardens of the valley, and some of the wells of the valley have been exhausted, resulting in a lack of water, and the valley has taken the fame of its presence at the foot of the great Mount Serbal, which is 2,070 meters above sea level and the name Serbal was associated with palm trees at the foot of the mountain and the mountain was sacred even before the Exodus of the people from Israel to Sinai.
