Monastery of Baouit

Monastery Egyptian Copte, founded by the apa (abba, anba, abbot: father) Apollo (Apollonius, then Apollo) towards 385/390, and who wrote for his monks a concise rule. The author of Vitis Patrum teaches us that the mass and the communion were daily and that the office was sung jointly.

The Life and VIIe centuries are one boom for this double monastery which will then accommodate in its center one commnauté women, under the patronage of holy Rachel. After the Islamic invasion, the monastery decrease, and is abandoned towards Xe century.

French archaeological research is led to the whole beginning of the XXe century and is stopped for various reasons in 1913: they are at the origin of the beautiful collection of the " Baouit" room; with the Museum of Louvre. Two churches then discovered in the monastic complex, were called simply today Northern church and Southern church, reconstituted partly by the archeologists. In 1976, private excavations will discover beautiful vestiges, installed with the Copte museum of the Cairo (frescos, in particular).

Internal bonds

External bonds

of paintings
Presentation of the place
Photographs of the site currently
Research tasks
Reconstitution of the northern church of Baouit

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