 Fanus Palace in Qufada | ||
| Qufada · قفادة | ||
| Governorate | Minyā | |
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| Residents | 9.948 (2006) | |
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Qufada (also Qufadah, Qufadeh, Gofada, Arabic:قفادة, Qufada) is a village southwest of the county seat Maghāgha and west of the city Aba el-Waqf el-Balad (Arabic:أبا الوقف البلد, Abā al-Waqf al-Balad) in the Egyptian governorate el-Minyā. In the north-west of the village are the Fānūs Palace and the Church of St. Maria.
background
The village of Qufāda is located about 15 kilometers southwest of Maghāgha, 12 kilometers northeast of Bahnasā and one kilometer west of Abā el-Waqf el-Balad. In 2006 almost 10,000 people lived here.[1]
For the first time the place was of Abū el-Makārim in tradition Abū Ṣāliḥ mentioned to the Armenians at the beginning of the 13th century.[2] According to this, there were five churches in the Qufāda area in the 12th century, but there are no remains today. These were the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, that of the equestrian saint and martyr Merkurius (also Mercurius, Abū es-Seifein) as well as churches for the Archangels Michael, Raphael and Gabriel. In the following years the place was mentioned several times by Arab authors.[3]
How many villages in Middle Egypt Cotton cultivation formed the economic backbone at the end of the 19th and first half of the 20th century. The income that could be achieved with this can be seen in the buildings of the large landowners Fānūs.
Even today agriculture is the most important branch of the economy in the village.
getting there
The village can be reached via the trunk road on the west bank of the Nile el-Minyā after Maghāgha. 8 kilometers south of Maghāgha you turn north of the village el-ʿAbbāsīya (Arabic:قرية العباسية, Qaryat el-ʿAbbāsīya) For example 1 28 ° 35 ′ 12 ″ N.30 ° 48 '53 "E. west on the road to Qufada. After a good six kilometers you reach at 2 28 ° 35 ′ 9 ″ N.30 ° 45 ′ 11 ″ E the road junction to the south to the village of Qufada.
mobility
A car can be used to get around the village.
Tourist Attractions
The most important sights are the buildings of the large landowner family Fānūs, which are located in the northwest of the village and can be seen from afar. For one thing, this is the 1 Palace of the Fānūs family(28 ° 34 '58 "N.30 ° 45 ′ 14 ″ E), Arabic:قصر فانوس, Qaṣr Fānūs. The roughly square palace, built in 1894, has two floors and is around 45 meters long. At the corners there are round bay windows that protrude like a tower over the roof. The entrances are designed as a loggia with closed balconies above them. The palace is said to have 360 rooms and is the largest in the entire el-Minyā governorate.
Immediately to the east of the palace is the 2 Church of St. Maria(28 ° 34 '58 "N.30 ° 45 ′ 18 ″ E). Both buildings were built around the same time in the Italian style.
There are also several in the village Mosques: the 3 el-Fatḥ mosque(28 ° 34 '52 "N.30 ° 45 ′ 17 ″ E), Arabic:مسجد الفتح الإسلامي, Masǧid al-Fatḥ al-islāmī, „Mosque of the Islamic Conquest", the 4 Darb-ed-Duwār Mosque(28 ° 34 '52 "N.30 ° 45 ′ 23 ″ E), مسجد درب الدوار, The Ḥeidar Mosque (مسجد حيدر), The ed Daʿwa Mosque (مسجد الدعوة), The en Nūr Mosque (مسجد النور), The Hindāwī Mosque (مسجد هنداوي), The he-Rāschid-el-Kabīr Mosque (مسجد الراشد الكبير) And the Sheikh Farag Mosque (مسجد الشيخ فرج).
kitchen
accommodation
Accommodation can be found in el-Minyā.
health
In the far northwest of the village is that 1 hospital(28 ° 35 ′ 1 ″ N.30 ° 45 ′ 11 ″ E).
trips
The excursion can include several sights, mostly churches, along the road to Maghāgha (e.g. in el-Bayahu and el-Manāhra) and various sights in the southwest of Maghāgha (e.g. Ischnīn en-Naṣārā, Deir el-Garnūs, Deir es-Sanqūrīya and el-Bahnasā) get connected.
Individual evidence
- ↑Population according to the 2006 Egyptian census, Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, accessed July 19, 2014.
- ↑: The churches and monasteries of Egypt and some neighboring countries attributed to Abû Sâliḥ, the Armenian. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1895, P. 211, fol. 73 b. Various reprints, e.g. B. Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-9715986-7-6 .
- ↑: Qufada. 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 , P. 2163. Contains further references.
