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Monastery of the Archangel Gabriel at Naqlun

The monastery of the Archangel Gabriel at Naqlun – a Coptic monastery of the Archangel Gabriel located in northern Egypt, in the Faiyum Oasis, 16 km south-east of the city of Faiyum in the Libyan Desert. Since 1986, it is investigated by a team of researchers from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw, headed by Prof. Włodzimierz Godlewski. In 1997, the Church of St. Gabriel was restored.

Architecture and archaeological discoveries
The walls of the monastery have been preserved both in the outer and inner courtyards. The Church of St. Gabriel has three sanctuaries, dedicated to the Archangel Gabriel, the Holy Virgin, and St. George. Cemetery A contains about 500 burials dated from the 11th to the 13th century. The wooden ceiling of the Church of the Archangel Gabriel was decorated with polychromies. == Footnotes ==
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