Dayr al-Anbā Bishāy (Sūhāj, Egypt)
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Name (Latin)
Dayr al-Anbā Bishāy (Sūhāj, Egypt)
Name (Arabic)
دير الأنبا بشاي (سوهاج، مصر)
Other forms of name
Dayr al-Aḥmar (Sūhāj, Egypt)
Dayr Anbā Bishoi (Sūhāj, Egypt)
Monastery of St. Bishay (Sūhāj, Egypt)
Monastery of Saint Bishay (Sūhāj, Egypt)
Red Monastery (Sūhāj, Egypt)
Anbā Bishoi (Monastery : Sūhāj, Egypt)
Monastery of Anbā Bishoi (Sūhāj, Egypt)
الدير الأحمر (سوهاج، مصر)
دير الأنبا بيشاي (سوهاج، مصر)
دير الأنبا بيشاي والأنبا بيجول (سوهاج، مصر)
Coordinates
31.61976111 31.61976111 26.55483056 26.55483056 (gooearth )
Type of corporate body
Monasteries
Associated country
Egypt
Place of residence/headquarters
Sūhāj (Egypt)
Associate group
Coptic Church
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- The Red Monastery church, 2016:page xi (early Byzantine Red Monastery church at Sohag, Egypt)
- Guide to ancient Coptic churches & monasteries in Upper Egypt, 1990:page 80 (Monastery of St. Bishay)
- The Coptic encyclopedia, 1991(Dayr Anbā Bishoi (Suhāj); nothing [of the monastery] remains but the church, which is built of red bricks and thus gives the monastery the popular nickname Dayr al-Aḥmar (the Red Monastery); Anbā Bishoi; Monastery of Anbā Bishoi)
- page on the Monastery of Saint Bishay (دير الانبا بشاي = Dayr al-Anbā Bishāy; دير الاحمر = Dayr al-Aḥmar ( (Website of the governorate of Sūhāj, viewed November 17, 2016:) )
- الدير الأحمر أو دير الأنبا بيشاي والأنبا بيجول، يقع غرب سوهاج ( (ويكيبيديا، شوهد 20 يوليو 2017) )