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Ghazali Monastery

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18.4417°N, 31.9314°E GIZA 356.55° DIST 1,285 km
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Coordinates18.4417°N, 31.9314°E
Giza Bearing356.55°
Distance1,285 km

18.4417°N, 31.9314°E.

Medieval Christian monastery in the Wadi Abu Dom of northern Sudan, roughly 20 kilometres inland from the Nile near Karima, built in stone and mud-brick. Ghazali Monastery was founded in the seventh century CE during the early Christian Makurian kingdom and remained occupied until at least the thirteenth century. The complex includes a substantial three-aisled basilica, a refectory, monastic cells, a cemetery containing over a thousand identified graves with carved sandstone funerary stelae in Greek, Coptic, and Old Nubian, and an unusual industrial area used for iron production. Polish excavations under Artur Obłuski for the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology have run since 2012 and are among the most thoroughly published recent fieldwork on Christian Nubia. The funerary stelae have provided one of the largest single corpora of Old Nubian liturgical text known.

A Coptic-Greek-Nubian trilingual cemetery sits in the desert beside an iron forge and a refectory, and outside Sudan it is barely known.

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