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-The monastery is located in the eastern mountain in Akhmim in the Al-Kawthar district, about fifteen kilometers from the city of Sohag. It’s worth noting that the diocese of Akhmim is the oldest.
– Its history goes back to the first half of the third century AD when its first bishop was ordained by Pope Demetrius I in the year 188, and in Fayoum and Assiut in the year 330.
– During the renovation of the monastery in the era of His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, found in the monastery for many cemeteries, unearthed many pieces of Coptic fabric wonderful, which dates back to the fourth century AD, and these pieces were the coffins of many of the martyrs, who have buried in that area after the massacre Akhmim, which confirms that the monastery was established in the fourth century AD in the year 400 AD, and the monastery continued to exist until the fifteenth century.
– There are three buildings known as Qalali for monks, a large dining table for the monks can accommodate 70 monks, and there is a private church for monks called the great martyr Mina and Pope Kyrillos, as there is a wooden workshop, some handmade products, and there is also beside the ancient monastery, some modern facilities such as the monastery’s gift library and a room to receive vows and donations.
– We find the Church of the Archangel Michael, as a model church of Akhmim types, with three altars, half of the circular area, the altar and the main East on behalf of the Archangel Michael, and an altar of the maritime name of the martyr Abu Sifin, and an altar tribal name of the martyr St. George, and there are baptismal next to the altar of Abu Safin. There is a small and beautiful church in the name of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
– Mentioned in the manuscript of the father Dagenius, the first bishop was ordained on the city of Akhmim, after the end of the era of martyrdom in the time of Diocletian, that in the north of the monastery of martyrs, where Ovrus and Philemonlived lived, two of the soldiers’ providers who took the torture of the saints Dioscorus and Ascalabios and the rest of the monks, the two who witnessed the saints praying fervently and surrounded by angelic lights to support them.
At that time, they declared their faith in the Lord Christ, and the governor ordered them to be burned along with the soldiers. In this place, an altar was built.
