monastery
Bawit (Monastery of Apa Apollo)
Bawit, near Dayrut, Egypt · Africa: Coptic Egypt
27.544, 30.701
Attested. Attested by excavation and by objects now in museums.
Bawit was a large monastery founded by Apa Apollo, famous for its wall paintings and carved wood and stone. Pieces are now in the Louvre and the Coptic Museum in Cairo. The 6th-7th-century icon of Christ with Abba Menas in the Louvre comes from here.
Source stance: neutral. Archaeology and art.
People and groups named here
- Apa Apollo (founder)
- Abba Menas (on the icon)
Sources
- Bawit (Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia)
René-Georges Coquin, Maurice Martin, Hans Georg Severin, Pierre du Bourguet; The Coptic Encyclopedia (Macmillan 1991), Claremont Colleges Digital Library. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Pleiades place 756521: Apa Apollo
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
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