Monastery St. Antonija. The monastery Sacred Antonija – the oldest an operating monastery in Egypt – opens the history to tourists
Monastery Sacred Antonija: that it is necessary to know about this sight of Egypt To the West from Zaafarana the wide plain divides a plateau Guessed and clears the road in the direction to Nile, on 168 km. She bears Valya Araba's name, which origin history of Egypt attributes to the name of vehicles to which once delivered provisions in a monastery. But the legend carries this title to chariots of the Pharaoh which pursued Israelis to the Reddish sea. Even the smallest trip to Egypt for 3 days can become a good occasion to behold one of the oldest operating monasteries in the world. Leave, without doubting, the best hotels of Egypt for time and sail away to a monastery Sacred Antonija, Egypt will wait, while will leave to be charmed by the pacifying atmosphere of this temple.
Turning off after the journey and following to hillocks in the south, it is possible to see a monastery located low under a stately ridge of hillocks, known as the mountain Kalakh. If you doubt, ask somebody whom you will meet, to show you Deyr Anba Antonius or Deyr Kaddis Antvan, and to you will show the road to this unique sight of Egypt. Very much the highest walls with the very narrow internal bridge surround a monastery St. Antonija (once a day 8 is open. 00-17. 00; it is closed during the Stately post and Christmas), whose lanes with two-floor residential buildings, churches, mills and vinogradovy, olive and palm gardens in essence make the whole settlement. Before being independent, the community receives now a huge part of provisions both from Cairo, and from the farm near Beni Sueyf, but remains dependent on water from own source where, according to the Arab legend, Miriam, Moisey's sister, bathed during the Ending. The speaking English monk will carry out to you the excursion trip differing for each guest. Sights comprise a body covered with soot a bakery and library, consisting of more than 1700 manuscripts. Oldest of the 5th church in Egypt is devoted St. Antonija, maybe, buried under her base. Do not pass a wall-painting which part belongs to the VII century and not so long ago has been restored in their former magnificence after they for years was are hidden under a black coating, deeply eaten грязищи and wax from candles. During the Stately post (when gate are closed and all deliveries in this monastery in Egypt lift by means of the winch over gate), monks make a liturgy in the St. church. Onions with twelve domes, dated 1776. Certain from churches belong by the beginning of the XII century, the new also are under construction.
Construction monuments of Old Egypt: monastery St. Antonija now
There is a quite good bookshop where books about a monastery and Coptic church in Egypt, also souvenirs and cards are on sale. The small museum is placed near a bookshop where the history of a monastery is carefully reflected and the related construction monuments of Old Egypt are carefully described. All these structures are nedavneshny on comparison to a monastery based soon after death Antonija in 356. Stay here St. John Kolov is everything that is written down about raneshny history of a monastery, but in VI and VII centuries there was a flow of refugees from Vadi Natrun and then monks мелкитов. Then plundered by bedouins and razed to the ground, the monastery has been restored within the XII century by Coptic monks from whom a number of the Ethiopian bishops has been chosen. After terribly revolt lifted by monastic servants, it has been again filled by Coptic, Syrian and Ethiopian monks. Headed by bishop Justus, the present invariable monastic brotherhood from 110 people consists of people with institute education and in a past of professionals – not enough, than differing from type of the people who have come to a monastery in the IV century AD. Ordinary day in a monastery begins at 4:00, from 2 o'clock prayers and anthems which follow a liturgy and a participle, се is made till a breakfast.
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