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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 Jan 11, 2025 12:33 PM — History
The cathedral in Faras, founded in 620 and rebuilt in the 8th and 10th centuries, respectively, was the seat of the Diocese of Faras. The site had well-preserved wall paintings from the 8th to 9th centuries. The 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, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/884719317> [accessed: 13 June 2025] 

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