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Cemetery of Bagawat in Farafra Oasis

  • 05 16, 2023

Cemetery of Bagawat in Farafra Oasis

The Bagawat is a Christian necropolis dating back to the period from the second century A.D. The structure of most of them is decorated from the outside.

There are these tombs that have resisted the factors of time and have tens of thousands of writings in Greek, Latin, and Coptic languages. There are several monuments such as The Shrine of Peace, the Shrine of Exodus, and the Church, and it is called the "Shrine of Peace" with this name because of the presence of the symbol of peace depicted in the dome of the shrine. Exodus, "in which he depicts the story of the children of Israel leaving Egypt, and Pharaoh follows them with his soldiers.

The cemeteries contain the ruins of a church, which is the second oldest church in Egypt, and is located in an archaeological area where it is bordered to the north by the Temple of Hibs and to the east by Jabal al-Tair and the Temple of Nadurah, in addition to other monuments surrounding it, and is a tourist attraction of the first degree, especially in the holiday of Sham al-Naseem, where Hundreds of oasis families visit it, which is 650 km away from Cairo, and it is subject to continuous development and restoration work to preserve it.

 

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Al-Bagwat, a group of ancient tombs located in the town of Kharga. The word is the valley inhabitants' pronunciation of the word "vault" and indicates that all the tombs in the cemetery are topped with domes. Bagawat is a Christian necropolis dating from the 2nd century AD. Most of its structures are decorated from the outside. Its significance lies in the fact that it dates back to the early Christian era, when Egypt's Copts fled their religion for fear of Roman persecution against Christianity and settled in the desert, safe from the Roman emperors.

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