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RARE OLD POSTCARDS OF A COPTIC CHURCH IN PORT SAID, EGYPT, FROM THE BRITISH...
The following two postcards date back to the pre-1952 Nasser’s coup d’état: they show a Coptic church in Port Said, the top Suez Canal city. There are at least three Coptic churches in Port Said today...
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COPTIC PILGRIMAGE TO THE HOLY LAND
Figure 1: The stereoscopic card titled “Coptic pilgrims from Egypt, bathing in the Holy Waters of the Jordan, Palestine”, c.1900. The tradition of pilgrimage by the Copts to the Holy Land to visit the...
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COPTIC DEATH AND AFTERLIFE 6: ANIMALS HAVE SOULS AND THEY DIE BUT UNLIKE MAN...
Figure 1: A lovely Coptic dolphin, 4th or 5th century (tapestry-woven panel in the V&A Museum, London, Museum no. 1302-1888). The Mysteries of Saint John the Apostle and Holy Virgin is one of the...
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COPTIC DEATH AND AFTERLIFE 7: PREDESTINATION IN COPTIC MIND
Figure 1: Christ the Pantocrator, Coptic wall painting from Saint Antony’s Monastery at the Red Sea, 13th century art. The “predestination doctrine”[1] is part of the Pauline theology. The Apostle St....
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OLD PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE RED SEA MONASTERIES OF SAINTS ANTHONY AND PAUL BY THE...
Figure 1: Thomas Whittemore’s expedition, before leaving the Monastery of Saint Anthony, Egypt, 1930-1931 Figure 2: Thomas Whittemore and the Abbot of the Monastery of Saint Paul, Egypt, 1930-1931 I...
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THE LIGHT OF THE DESERT (LA LUMIÈRE DU DÉSERT): FRENCH DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE...
In 2012, Exaltavit produced a documentary, “La lumière du désert”, on the great Coptic Monastery of saint Macarius, Egypt. The company gives this introduction: In the region of el Waddi Natrun in...
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THE COPTS AND COPTIC CHRISTIANITY IN JERUSALEM AND THE HOLY LAND: AN...
Documentary on Coptic Orthodox Parishes in Jerusalem (The Church in Jerusalem) There are around one thousand Copts in the Holy Land, and they could have been more had it not been for the...
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THE CONVENT OF THE PULLEY (DEIR EL ADRA OR THE MONASTERY OF THE VIRGIN MARY)...
Figure 1: This beautiful watercolour (47.4 cm X 35.9 cm covers), titled “Dayr- El Bukhur – or ‘of the Pulley’ Coptic Convent on Gebel-e-Tayr. Upper Egypt”, is kept in the V&A Museum, London, is by...
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THE CONVENT OF THE PULLEY (DEIR EL ADRA OR THE MONASTERY OF THE VIRGIN MARY)...
Figure 1: Tschibel Ell Deir or Gabal al-Tayr, where the Coptic Convent of the Pulley is, from Norden’s Voyage d’Egypte et de Nubie. Al-Mu’taman Abu al-Makarim Sa’d Allah Jirjis ibn Mas’ud (known simply...
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THE CONVENT OF THE PULLEY (DEIR EL ADRA OR THE MONASTERY OF THE VIRGIN MARY)...
Figure 1: Monastery of the Pulley- or Coptic Convent of Deir el Adra, January 14, 1923, by John Nicholas Brown II. Figure 2: Close up of the photograph above. John Nicholas Brown II (1900 – 1979) was...
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THE CONVENT OF THE PULLEY (DEIR EL ADRA OR THE MONASTERY OF THE VIRGIN MARY)...
Figure 1: Gustave Flaubert around the age of 30 years. He went to Egypt in 1849 when he was 29 years. In the next articles on the subject of “The Convent of the Pulley”, I would like to present to my...
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HOW THEY SAW THE COPTS: COPTIC FAMILY?
Autour du monde : aquarelles souvenirs des voyages[1] was published in Paris in the 1880s, and was edited by L. Boulanger. One of the photochrom prints[2] (Planche CCX) is labelled “Famille Copte”. I...
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COPTIC HOLY HUMOUR: SAINT PAMBO MAKES FUN OF FUNNY DEMONS!
Figure 1: A detail of the wall at the private tomb of Menna on the West Bank of Luxor. Menna was a royal scribe in the 18th Dynasty. The detail shows harvesting and gathering of wheat. Heavy loads are...
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COPTIC NATIVITY BY THE AMERICAN ARTIST DOUG DUFFEY
Doug Duffey is a contemporary American artist from Louisiana, U.S., whose biography on his website describes him as “Best known as a singer/songwriter, pianist, and international recording and concert...
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THE COPTS IN THE HOLY LAND: PHOTOGRAPH FROM JAFFA, APRIL 1947
Figure 1: The Coptic Archbishop of the See of Jerusalem, Yacobos II, in a visit to the Coptic Church in Jaffa, 1947, accompanied by the British District Commissioner in Jerusalem, William Ryder...
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COPTIC CHRISTUS, ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART BY THE AMERICAN ARTIST DOUG...
Figure 1: Coptic Christus, by the contemporary American artist, Doug Duffey. The American artist Doug Duffey has sent me an image of his artwork, “Coptic Christus”. Duffey has been interested in...
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THE BRILLIANT RUSSIAN PHOTOGRAPHY THAT TOUCHES THE HEART OF THE COPTS,...
These pictures were taken recently by some Russian young photographers who climbed the pyramids at risk of being punished to get us these wonderful pictures (see: English Russia...
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THE PRECIOUS JEWEL IN ECCLESIASTICAL SCIENCES “AL-JAWHARAH AL-NAFISAH FI...
The Precious Jewel in Ecclesiastical Sciences (الجوهرة النفيسة فى علوم الكنيسة Al-Jawharah al-Nafisah fi ‘Ulum al-Kanisah), or simply The Precious Jewel,[1] is a great book in Coptic literature; its...
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THE JOYFUL COPTIC MADONNA AND THE CHILD BY THE POLISH ARTIST ANDRZEJ GOSZCZ
Figure 1: The Joyful Coptic Madonna and the Child by Andrzej Goszcz. Andrzej Goszcz is a Polish artist from Crakow. He describes himself as a “freelance artist, photographer, digital fine art artist,...
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UNE BEAUTÉ COPTE (COPTIC BEAUTY), A PHOTOGRAPH BY THE ARMENIAN G. LEKEGIAN
Figure 1: “Une Beauté Copte”(Coptic Beauty) by the Armenian photographer Georges Legrain. In 1914, an interesting book was published, “Louqsor sans les Pharaons: légendes et chansons populaires de la...
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