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CategoriesDesert monasteries
Every place in the atlas labelled desert monasteries.
🇪🇬 Egypt · Temple complex
Coptic Late Antique to Present (330–860 CE foundation, continuous) · Coptic Orthodox (Desert Fathers) / Egyptian
Wadi Natrun (Scetis) is the 60 km depression -23 m below sea in Western Desert containing 4 surviving Coptic monasteries of 60 (4th c Desert Fathers): Saint Macarius (Deir Anba Maqar, 360 CE),…
