Monastery
White Monastery (Deir al-Abiad)
الدير الأبيض
Upper Egypt · founded mid-4th century CE; still active
The great monastic federation near Sohag, famous above all for its long-serving abbot Shenoute. Its massive limestone basilica still dominates the plain and preserves one of the most important literary archives of late-antique Egypt.
- Coords:
- 26.554°, 31.717°