| El-Kufūr eṣ-Ṣūlīya · الكفور الصولية | ||
| Governorate | Minyā | |
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| Residents | 7.358 (2006) | |
| height | 39 m | |
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El-Kufur es-Suliya, Arabic:الكفور الصولية, al-Kufūr aṣ-Ṣūlīya / aṣ-Ṣaulīya, Coptic: Ⲛⲓⲕⲁⲫⲁⲣ, Nikafar, Greek: Nikaphora, or short el-Kufur, Arabic:الكفور, al-Kufur, „the hamlet", is a egyptian Village with about 7,400 inhabitants in Governorateel-Minyā about 3.5 kilometers north of Maṭāi and located directly on the east bank of the Ibrāhīmīya Canal. The main attraction of the village is the [1]Church of Athanasius the Great.
background
location
The village is located 3.5 kilometers north of the district capital Maṭāi on the east bank of the Ibrāhīmīya Canal. This canal was created in 1873 as an irrigation canal. The sister village is located exactly opposite on the west bank 1 Manschīyat Luṭf Allaah(28 ° 26 ′ 45 ″ N.30 ° 48 ′ 19 ″ E), Arabic:منشية لطف الله.
history
For the first time the village of Abū el-Makārim (Late 12th, early 13th century) in tradition Abū Ṣāliḥ the Armenian mentioned as part of the Bahnasā province with the indication that a church of St. Theodore is located.[2] The place was also in different Coptic-Arabic scales, these are geographically sorted lists,[3] in early Arabic documents[4] and named by medieval authors. The current Arabic name is derived directly from the Coptic name, both names are also in the plural (in Coptic the prefix Ni-).[3]
In 1885 the village had 798 inhabitants.[3] Today there are a few thousand.
History of the local churches
Father Kirellos (Arabic:أبونا كيرلس, Abūnā Kīrilus), who looks after the local Coptic community, reported in 2010 that the first church in the village was built in the 12th century for the great martyr and military saint Theodore Schuṭb, who is also known as Theodor Stratelates (Theodor, the Heerfüher, † 319) was consecrated. According to Coptic tradition, his father Jonas came from Schuṭb, a town near to Asyūṭ. As a recruit he came to Antioch, where he married the daughter of a patrician. Theodore emerged from the marriage, which was later divorced because of his Christian faith. Theodor also went to the military, where he soon rose. In Euchaita he was able to prevent a Christian boy from being sacrificed to a dragon by killing the dragon. During the diocletian Persecution of Christians, he was caught, tortured, and burned alive.[5]
Over the remains of this church a new church was built for about 500 years ago Athanasius the great (298–373), the 20th Bishop of Alexandria. In 2001 this church collapsed. A new church is now being built in the immediate vicinity.
According to Father Kirellos' description, the old church had three naves and had twelve domes that rested on ancient columns. The entrance, the bell tower and some building fragments are still there today.
getting there
By train
El-Kufūr is on the railway line from Cairo to Aswan and is with regional trains from el-Minyā reachable from.
By bus
Microbuses run off Maṭāi.
In the street
The trunk road runs along the western bank of the Ibrāhīmīya Canal. Over a 1 Canal bridge(28 ° 26 '38 "N.30 ° 48 ′ 22 ″ E) in the south of the village you get to the east bank. The Church of St. Athanasius can already be seen from the road on the east bank.
mobility
Tourist Attractions
Immediately next to each other are the remains of the 1 old church and the new church for Athanasius the great(28 ° 26 '44 "N.30 ° 48 '38 "E.), Arabic:كنيسة القديس العظيم الأنبا أثناسيوس, Kanīsat al-Qiddīs al-ʿaẓīm al-Anbā Athanāsiyūs, „Church of the great saint Athanasius"). From the so-called old church (Arabic:الكنيسة القديمة, al-Kanīsat al-qadīma) only the entrance and the wooden bell tower as well as some architectural fragments such as column shafts and capitals are preserved. The bell still works and is still used. There is also a fountain in the area of the old church.
The new church houses two churches one above the other. The upper church was not finished in 2010. The lower church has three naves and, behind its modern icon wall, has the altars for St. Virgin St. Athanasius and the holy cross. Next to the entrance to the middle altar are the icons for the Virgin and Jesus and next to them the other saints. The upper part of the icon wall is made up of the Christ cross, the depiction of the Last Supper and that of the twelve apostles. On the right wall there is a relic of Athanasius. On the back wall are some older icons and the library. There are also architectural fragments of the old church in the access area to the new church.
shop
kitchen
accommodation
Accommodation is available in el-Minyā.
trips
A visit to the village can be combined with that of the city Samālūṭ connect.
literature
- : al-Kufur. 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 , P. 1478 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, accessed June 4, 2014.
- ↑: The churches and monasteries of Egypt and some neighboring countries attributed to Abû Sâliḥ, the Armenian. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895, P. 212, fol. 74.a. Various reprints, e.g. B. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-9715986-7-6 .
- ↑ 3,03,13,2: La geographie de l’Égypte à l’époque copte. Paris: Impr. National, 1893, P. 276 f.
- ↑: Arabic papyri from the Hamburg State and University Library. Leipzig: German Oriental Society, Brockhaus, 1937, Treatises for the customer of the Orient; 22.3, P. 53.
- ↑: The Saints of Egypt: an alphabetical compendium of martyrs, patriarchs and sainted ascetes in the Coptic calendar, commemorated in the Jacobite Synascarium. London, New York: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, MacMillan, 1937, Pp. 262-265.
