call_me_rhia Says: The Qasr is a tall-looking building right by the Monastery's entrance. It's free standing and connected top the rest of the monastery by a drawbridge: this is the fortress in which the monks used to hide during the Berbers' invasions. Inside the fortress there was always a...
call_me_rhia Says: Although there are some people that swear that you can get to Wadi Natrun by public transportation, this is not entirely true. You can get to some nearby town by public transportation, but then you need a car with driver to head out to the different monasteries - and not all...
religious craft: Al Anba Bishoy Monastery
call_me_rhia Says: Right outside Al Anba Bishoy Monastery there's a little row of shopos: one sells food (possibly to the monastery), one sells olives (possibly grown by the monks) and another - the largest - sells beautiful crafts made by the monks... religious craft as well as some pieces of...
call_me_rhia Says: Before I went to Egypt I knew little about the Coptic Church... now I still know very little. Coptic monks dress in a long black robe (it's the symbol that they have died from this world), wear a long beard, and a black cap with white coptic crosses. There are coptic priest,...
call_me_rhia Says: Next to Saint Bishoi Monasteries there's another monastery-in-the-making - or better an old monastery (probably the Monastery of Moses the Black, Deir Anba Mussa al-Aswad) that is being restored and retrieved from the sand.This restration started in 1971 by the Patriarch...
call_me_rhia Says: The Monastery of Al Anba Bishoy was founded by St. Bishoy in the 300's AD. There are five churches in this large monastery: the churches of St. Bishoi, of the Virgin, of St. Iskhirun, of St. George and of the Angel Michael (in the castle). Theres also a building, called the...
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The church of St. Pishoy is the main church of the monastery which houses the incorrupted remain of the St. Pishoy, and relics of St. Paul of Tammah.

Q: How long does it take to get from Cairo to Wadi Natrun? And if you had a choice between going there and going to see the...

A: I think you want the northern africa/Egypt forum--Johannesburg is about 8000 miles south (at least).
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It may not be on the top list of must-see sights in Egypt but we were amazed by the kindness of the monks in the monastery of St. Pishoy there. The most popular one was founded by Saint Pishoy in the...
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