Benī Mazār - Benī Mazār

Benī Mazār · ‏بني مزار‎
GovernorateMinyā
Residents
79.553 (2006)
height
43 m
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Benī Mazār

Beni Mazar (Arabic:بني مزار‎, Banī Mazār) is a medium-sized town in the north of the egyptian Governorates el-Minyā and the administrative seat of the administrative district of the same name. About 80,000 people live in the city.[1] Even if the city itself has little to offer, so is its environment, especially the city el-Bahnasā, well worth a visit.

background

location

Benī Mazār is about 50 kilometers from el-Minyā away. The city extends on both sides of the Ibrāhīmīya Canal and now extends east to Nile one and a half kilometers away. In the area of ​​the city, in the Nile, there is a narrow, almost two-kilometer-long, agriculturally used island.

History and meaning

The origins of the city of Benī Mazār are obscure. Possible Pharaonic or Greek names and finds from this period are not known.[2]

The name Benī Mazār itself is more recent and comes from a clan. It is sometimes claimed that this name is different from Bāb el-Mazār, Arabic:باب المزار‎, „Gate of the Shrines“, Derives. What is meant here is that the city has easy access to el-Bahnasā bot. In the Middle Ages the city was called differently, namely Schinūda (Arabic:شنودة) Or Geir Schinūda (Arabic:جير شنودة‎).[3] Now there is the assumption that this has not yet been localized in this city Gjinouoote, Coptic: Ϭ ⲓⲛⲟⲩⲟⲟⲧⲉ, for which the Arabic name could act Shinwada (Arabic:شنوادة) Has been handed down. It is known that Gjinouoote was near el-Bahnasā. An equation with Benī Mazār is still controversial.[3]

The inhabitants of the city live mainly from agriculture. The produce grown around the city includes fruit, vegetables, wheat, corn and cotton.

The city belongs to the diocese of Benī Mazār and el-Bahnasā.

getting there

City map of Benī Mazār

In the street

Benī Mazār is connected to Highway 2, which runs on the west side of the Ibrāhīmīya Canal. In the south of the city it meets trunk road 27, which leads east to a bridge over the Nile.

By train

Benī Mazār can easily be reached by train from Cairo or el-Minyā reach out. The 1 Benī Mazār Railway Station is located on the eastern side of the Ibrāhīmīya Canal.

mobility

Tourist Attractions

Mosques

  • Esch-Shāfa Moschī Mosque (‏مسجد الشافعي‎, Masǧid al-Shāfaʿī), Mīdān esch-Shāfaʿī.
  • 3  ʿUmar-ibn-el-Chaṭṭāb Mosque (‏مسجد عمر ابن الخطاب‎, Masǧid ʿUmar ibn al-Khaāb) (28 ° 29 '44 "N.30 ° 48 ′ 28 ″ E)

Churches

  • Church of St. Virgin (‏كنيسة السيدة العذراء مريم‎, Kanīsat as-Saiyida al-ʿAdhrāʾ Maryam)

shop

kitchen

accommodation

There are no hotels in the city. Accommodation options exist in el-Minyā.

health

  • El Safwa Hospital (El Safwa Hospital), 10th of Ramadan St.. Tel.: 20 (0)86 782 5599.

Practical advice

Practical advice

  • Post office (close to the train-station).

trips

The city is located about 15 kilometers to the west, on the west side of the Joseph Canal el-Bahnasāwhich is located around the site of the ancient city Oxyrhynchus is located. Most of the sights today date from Islamic times. Christian monuments such as the virgin tree and the remains of early churches can also be visited. The village is located about five kilometers south of el-Bahnasā Deir es-Sanqūrīya with its monastery of the same name.

The village is located about two and a half kilometers southwest of Benī Mazār 1 el-Qeis(28 ° 28 '57 "N.30 ° 47 '8 "E), Arabic:القيس), The ancient Sko (Greek: Σκώ, ancient Egyptian: S3k3, Saka). The Greek metropolis could be on one of the three hills to the west of the village Kynopolis (Greek: Κυνῶν πόλις, ancient Egyptian Ḥr-dj, Latin: Cynopolis superior, Kaïs) found by the Greek geographer Claudius Ptolemy found on an island at the time of a Nile flood.[4] This metropolis was known for its cult around the god of death Anubis. It is also said that Kynopolis is also a station on the Escape of the Holy Family to Egypt has been. The hills west of the village are now mainly used as cemeteries. Sights in the village include the old village mosque, a late antique Column pedestal, the Church of St. Georg (Arabic:كنيسة مار جرجس‎, Kanīsat Mār Girgis) and numerous late antique architectural fragments lying on the streets or built into the houses.[5]

The village is located about five kilometers south of Benī Mazār el-Kufūr eṣ-Ṣūlīya with the Church of Athanasius the Great.

Due to the nearby Nile Bridge, one also has the opportunity to see sights on the east bank such as Sharuna, about 20 kilometers north of trunk road 27, and in a southerly direction es-Sirīrīya and the monastery Deir el-ʿAdhrāʾ to be visited about 30 kilometers away.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, accessed November 7, 2014.
  2. ↑Gomaà, Farouk et al.: Middle Egypt between Samalūṭ and the Gabal Abū Ṣīr: Contributions to the historical topography of the Pharaonic period. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1991, Supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East: Series B, Geisteswissenschaften; 69, ISBN 978-3-88226-467-8 , P. 83 f.
  3. ↑ 3,03,1Timm, Stefan: Gjinouoote. In:Christian Coptic Egypt in Arab times; Vol. 3: G - L. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1985, Supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East: Series B, Geisteswissenschaften; 41.3, ISBN 978-3-88226-210-0 , Pp. 1063-1066.
  4. ↑Claudius Ptolemy, Geography, 4th book, 5th chapter, § 29.
  5. ↑Gomaà, Farouk, a. a. O., Pp. 74 f., 192-194.
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