Historical place profile
Deir Abou Menas
An ancient Christian pilgrimage site that grew into an active town centered around the monastery complex devoted to Saint Menas who is said to have been buried there. The town reached its peak as the most visited pilgrimage site in Egypt during the sixth century AD.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:727105
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:727105
- Place type
- archaeological-site, bath, church, sanctuary, settlement
- Coordinates
- 30.841605, 29.667046
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient Christian pilgrimage site that grew into an active town centered around the monastery complex devoted to Saint Menas who is said to have been buried there. The town reached its peak as the most visited pilgrimage site in Egypt during the sixth century AD.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 B3 Deir Abou Menas
Source and reuse
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Research path
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