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Faras Cathedral

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Feb 28, 2023 08:46 PM History
Cathedral in Faras founded in 620, rebuilt in the 8th and 10th centuries that was the seat of the Diocese of Faras. The site had well-preserved wall paintings from the 8th-9th centuries. This cathedral was flooded by the creation of Lake Nasser in the 1960s.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/884719317

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Zachary Rosalinsky, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Faras Cathedral: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/884719317> [accessed: 05 November 2024]

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