Faras Cathedral
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
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
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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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/884719317
22.181667, 31.496944
- Representative Locations:
- Approximate imagery location of Faras Cathedral (AD 640 - AD 1453)
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- Faras Cathedral located at Pachoras (AD 640 - AD 1453)
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church
- See Further:
Pleiades
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: 23 September 2023]
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