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| Qiman el-ʿArūs · قمن العروس | ||
| Governorate | Beni Suef | |
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| Residents | 28.246 (2006) | |
| height | 31 m | |
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Qiman el-'Arus, Arabic:قمن العروس, Qiman el-ʿArūs, in dialect ʾIman il-ʿArūs, is a village in Middle Egypt in the GovernorateBeni Suef. There, now predominantly inhabited by Muslims, is the birthplace of Antony the Great.
background
Location and population
Qiman el-ʿArūs is located on the western side of the Nile, about 94 kilometers south of Cairo, about 7 kilometers southwest of the district capital el-Wāsṭā, about 26 kilometers north-northeast of Beni Suef and just under 2 kilometers west of the west of the Cairo Aswan Highway. In the north of Qiman there is also the village of Kafr Abgīg.
There is an exclusively Muslim population in the village. In 2006 about 28,000 people lived here.
history
There is no evidence from pre-Roman times. There was a church here as early as the 3rd century AD.
Qiman el-ʿArūs, Greek: coma, Κομά, Coptic: Ⲧⲅⲉⲙⲁⲛ, Tgeman, is the Birthplace of Anthony the Great (251–356), the patriarch of Coptic monasticism. He was born the son of wealthy Christian farmers. However, the place was not mentioned in his biography that Vita Antoniimade by his student Athanasius the great (around 300–373) was written, named. This is only mentioned in the Arabic synaxar (martyrology) for the 22nd tuba.
At the age of twenty he lost both parents. As can be read in Synaxar, after hearing the Bible verse in church, he chose a life without wealth: “If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give the money to the poor; so you will have an abiding treasure in heaven; then come and follow me! "(Mt 19,21 ) He gave away his wealth and gave his sister to a community of virgins. He himself opted for a life of asceticism, initially in a grave near his birthplace, in what is today Deir el-Meimun. Friends who brought him food found him unconscious one day and took him to a church. After his recovery, he returned to the grave.
The French traveler Jean Coppin (around 1615–1690) visited Qiman el-ʿArūs in 1638/1639 and found the church that Antony's parents had built for their son, but which had since been converted into a mosque. It is the only reference to the church being built by his parents.[1]
According to the village population, the place name should be from Amān el-ʿArūs,أمان العروس, Derive. It is reported that he was a wealthy Christian and village chief. In el-Wāsṭā there should be a manuscript about him.
The German theologian Otto Meinardus (1925–2005) reported in 1973 that he found a few ancient columns in the courtyard of the rectangular mosque in the center of the village, which, according to villagers, became the former church of St. Antony should have heard. Five kilometers south of Qiman el-ʿArūs there is still a 52 today Feddan, almost 22 hectares, large property that belongs to the monastery of Anthony and is considered sacred.
Building fragments with Christian symbols or inscriptions can no longer be found these days. The residents of the village reported, however, that such blocks used to be built in both mosques and houses. The mosques have only recently been renewed and rebuilt, so that older building fragments are missing today, were removed earlier or are covered.
getting there
You can arrive by car or taxi via the Aswan Cairo Highway. About the branch at 1 29 ° 18 '8 "N.31 ° 11 ′ 10 ″ E one reaches the village in the east. A small vehicle is an advantage for the narrow streets.
mobility
The village is not very big, so you can explore it on foot. The streets themselves are very narrow.
Tourist Attractions
Qiman el-ʿArūs now has about a dozen mosques. It is unknown whether they still have building fragments from late antiquity.
- 1 Sheikh Amrun Mosque (مسجد الشيخ عمرون, Masǧid el-Sheikh ʿAmrūn). The mosque has a slender minaret and an irregular community room, which has a domed light dome in the middle and the ceiling of which rests on slender columns and pillars. There are yellow windows on the walls that taper towards the top. The mihrab (qibla) is kept simple in white and has a column on each side and a black inscription above. The prayer pulpit (minbar) is located on a semicircular balcony.(29 ° 17 '59 "N.31 ° 10 ′ 3 ″ E)
- 2 Tomb of the Sheikh ūAmrūn (قبة الشيخ عمرون, Qubba al-Sheikh ʿAmrūn). The Sheikh's tomb is located immediately to the west of the Sheikh ʿAmrūn's mosque. It is a simple square domed tomb in which the sheikh's cenotaph can be viewed. The tomb has a window at the front and several smaller windows in the exposed brick dome. His daughter is also buried in a corner of the dome tomb.(29 ° 17 '58 "N.31 ° 10 ′ 3 ″ E)
- 3 Sheikh Safa's tomb (قبة الشيخ صفا, Qubba al-Sheikh Ṣafā). The grave is located about 200 meters north of the aforementioned grave. This, too, is a simple square domed tomb with windows and niches in the walls and the sheikh's cenotaph. The dome is plastered and has light openings. Sheikh Ṣafā was close friends with Sheikh ʿAmrūn and Sheikh Mahalhal,الشيخ مهلهل. There is no grave of the latter.(29 ° 18 ′ 3 ″ N.31 ° 10 ′ 5 ″ E)
- 4 Great mosque (المسجد الكبير, al-Masǧid al-Kabīr). The oldest mosque in the village has a towering minaret and also runs a religious school. The square interior is kept simple and has a green, ornamentally designed base. The roof rests on two rows of columns on all sides and has a two-tier light dome with a dome and chandelier in the middle. In one of the corners is the mihrab, the prayer niche, and next to it the wooden minbar, the pulpit.(29 ° 18 ′ 7 ″ N.31 ° 10 ′ 7 ″ E)
- 5 Abū el-ʿAmrān mosque (مسجد أبو العمران, Masǧid Abū al-ʿAmrān) (north-northeast of the Great Mosque). The historic mosque has a high round minaret above the entrance portal of the mosque, which is located on the upper floor of a two-story building. The entrance can be reached via an external staircase. The floor plan of the interior is irregular. The interior is kept simple. The walls have only a three-striped base and two rows of windows. The semicircular window closure consists of yellow glass panes. To the left of the mihrab and white and black marble is the pulpit on a brick, semicircular balcony. The ceiling is supported by columns and pillars and has a colored ornamental design.(29 ° 18 ′ 11 ″ N.31 ° 10 ′ 8 ″ E)
shop
kitchen
Restaurants can be found in Beni Suef.
accommodation
Accommodation can be found in Beni Suef.
trips
The visit of the village subsides with the journey Dalāṣ, el-Wāsṭā and to Pyramid of Meidūm connect.
literature
- Vita Antonius the great:
- : Selected writings of St. Athanasius Alexandrinus; Vol. 2: Against the Gentiles; About the Incarnation; Life of Saint Anthony ; Life of Saint Pachomius. Kempten [and others]: Kösel, 1917, Library of the Church Fathers: [Row 1]; Vol. 31, Pp. 687-776.
- Reference books:
- : Qiman. In:Christian Coptic Egypt in Arab times; Vol. 5: Q - S. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 1991, Supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East: Series B, Geisteswissenschaften; 41.5, ISBN 978-3-88226-212-4 , Pp. 2154-2157.
- : Christian Egypt, ancient and modern. Cairo: American University at Cairo Press, 1977 (2nd edition), ISBN 978-977-201-496-5 , P. 355.
Web links
- Coptic Synaxarium (Martyrologium) for 22. Tuba (Coptic Orthodox Church Network)
Individual evidence
- ↑ ; Sauneron, Serge (Ed.): Voyage en Égypte de Jean Coppin: 1638-1639, 1643-1646. Le Caire: Institut français d’archéologie orientale du Caire, 1971, Collection des voyageurs occidentaux en Egypte; 4th, P. 294.
