St Mary's Church Description
The Sitt Miriyam Church has a number of fine icons. The monastery's valuable library, which contained early Syriac manuscripts and important Arabic and Coptic works, was dispersed in the mid 19th C. to Britain, the Vatican and Cairo.
Hobbies & Activities category: Ancient Egyptian art, artifacts;  Library;  Christian sites
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