Red Monastery

Sohag Governorate · Egypt

Red Monastery, Egypt
Photo: Roland Unger, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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October to April
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A Coptic monastery near Sohag famed for its richly painted late-antique sanctuary, named for the red brick of its outer walls. Recent conservation has revealed vivid early Christian frescoes inside.

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