Monastery of St. Simeon in Aswan, Egypt | Coptic Egyptian Monuments
Facts about Egyptian Coptic antiquities and the history of building the most important Coptic tourist attractions in Aswan on the West Bank and the most important Coptic Orthodox monasteries and the price of the entrance ticket and working hours and more.
The Monastery of Anba Semaan in Aswan is one of the most important ancient Coptic Orthodox monasteries, and it is also considered one of the largest and most important Coptic monasteries in the entire world..
Monastery of St. Simeon Facts
It is also known that it is one of the most important Coptic monasteries built throughout history, because it protected many monks around the world at the time when Christianity began to spread, especially in the region of the Nubia kings..
The archaeological importance of this ancient monastery
This monastery still retains all its inscriptions, except for the decaying inscriptions of Jesus Christ..
This was built on the West Bank in Aswan Governorate around the 5th century AD, although there are some interesting buildings but most of those other or current buildings were added at the time as a kind of expansion and restoration operations..
The buildings date back to the 10th and 11th centuries AD..
Also, that monastery at that time was very prosperous with an infinite number of monks, to the point that the number of players in it reached about 300 monks at one time…
But during the reign of the great and valiant Salah Al-Din Al-Ayyubi, he had destroyed this Coptic monastery between approximately 1170 AD and 1173 AD, due to his extreme fear of testing the Nubians or Christians in it for a period of time.
They were the people who were causing riots in the southern parts of Egypt at that time, due to the severe attacks by the Berbers on that particular Coptic monastery in the 14th century, in addition to what they suffered during that period from the lack of water in the wells of the monastery, it was completely abandoned…
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In fact, the Muslims had used the ancient Monastery of Anba Simeon as a rest stop during the Hajj season, especially among them were the Moroccan pilgrims heading to the city of Mecca by taking the entire Western Desert..
During their stay in Obock, these pilgrims used to engrave their names on the walls of that ancient monastery, and they still exist today..
And with the complete abandonment of that ancient monastery and at the same time the Muslims not using it in any way, it was covered with sand and then succeeded in being preserved from the effects of erosion factors for a period of about 700 years.
And after that, in the year 1893 AD, the final discovery of the unity of that ancient monastery was completed, and it was then restored more than once in the years 1912 AD, 1925 AD, and 1978 AD…
The archaeological design of the Monastery of Anba Semaan
The ancient monastery of Anba Semaan was built on a large area of approximately 6 acres and was at a great height of 5.5 m..
It also represents the unique and original style of Coptic architecture, and this monastery was considered the only one currently remaining of the Pachomian monasteries..
It also includes a large number of buildings and rooms made of granite and mud bricks. It also has an entrance from the east and west. It was built in two parts..
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