North Africa
Egypt
Sohag Governorate

White Monastery

The Coptic White Monastery, also The Monastery of Abba Shenouda and The Monastery is a Coptic Orthodox monastery named after Saint Shenoute. It is located near the cities of and , and about two and a half miles south-east of the .
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  • Type: Church
  • Description: monastery in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Dayr al-Abyaḍ” and “Monastery of Apa Shenoute”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Athribis and Red Monastery.

Archaeological site
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, also known to the ancient Greeks as Triphieion or Tripheion, and to the ancient Egyptians as Hut-Repyt, was an ancient city of , in the Panopolite nome. is situated 3 km southeast of White Monastery.

Church
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The or The Monastery of Apa Psoi is a Coptic Orthodox monastery named after an Egyptian saint named Psoi or Pishoy, not to be confused with Pishoy, Bishop of Sketis. is situated 3½ km northwest of White Monastery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sohag.

Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also spelled as Suhag or Suhaj, is a city on the west bank of the Nile in Egypt. It has been the capital of since 1960, before which the capital was and the name of the governorate was Girga Governorate.

White Monastery

Latitude
26.53455° or 26° 32′ 4″ north
Longitude
31.64573° or 31° 38′ 45″ east
Open location code
7GRHGJMW+R7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 520698791
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Wiki­data ID
Q202661
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“White Monastery” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “الدير الأبيض”
  • Arabic: “دير الأنبا شنودة رئيس المتوحدين”
  • Cebuano: “Dayr al Abyaḑ”
  • Dutch: “Witte klooster”
  • Dutch: “Witte Klooster”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الدير الابيض”
  • French: “monastère blanc”
  • French: “Monastère blanc”
  • German: “ad-Dair al-Abyad”
  • German: “Deir al-Abiad”
  • German: “Weißes Kloster”
  • Irish: “an Mhainistir Bhán”
  • Italian: “Dayr al-Abyaḍ”
  • Italian: “Monastero bianco”
  • Japanese: “白修道院”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Det hvite klosteret”
  • Norwegian: “Det hvite klosteret”
  • Polish: “Biały Klasztor”
  • Russian: “Белый монастырь”
  • Swedish: “Dayr al Abyaḑ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “White Monastery”. Photo: Einsamer Schütze, CC BY-SA 3.0.