Bethy17

Monastery of Saint Samuel the Confessor

Dear Bethy17, I reverted your edit because you are wrong. The monastery is really situated in the Beni Suef governorate. You can see it directly from from the map. I was there so I call tell you the geo position is correct. Unfortunately, the press reports on the (wrongly named) Minya attack are attributed to el-Minya. But the attack was in the village of el-ʿAdwa near Maghagha which is the northernmost town in el-Minya governorate. But you had to go to the north west to arrive to this monastery - and then you are already in the Beni Suef governorate.

The official language in Egypt is Arabic. That's why I gave the Arabic name, too. It is the same with Cairo or Alexandria. --RolandUnger (talk) 17:20, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

Thank you. Please see my reply on your talk page. Bethy17 (talk) 17:57, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

I will repeat my answer here, too.

Dear Bethy17, nice to meet any people who also visited the Samuel monastery like me. But nevertheless you are wrong. Please do not read the wrong press papers (Minya attack - this is nonsense - because it was not in the city of el-Minya) but look on a map! The monastery is about 42 km northwest of Maghagha. It lies in a narrow strip of in the Beni Suef governorate directing into the Western desert. I is north of Fashn (!) at about the same latitude like Biba. And both cities are in the Beni Suef governorate. By the way in a historical way, the monastery belongs to al-Faiyum.

Of course you have two ways to come to this monastery. You can use the desert highway to el-Minya, but the diversion is at the border between Minya and Beni Suef governorates. And then you have to go about 30km to the north, to Beni Suef. If you will take the agricultural road then you will pass Maghagha. Then you will go the west to the same diversion as mentioned before. I know all the monasteries in el-Minya area. So, Deir el Garnoos is of course in el-Minya governorate but not far from from el-Minya-Beni Suef border. And then you have to go about 50 km to the north-west!

By the way, when I will come back to Beni Suef and el-Minya (I think in spring of 2019) then we can check together the position. In the last weeks I was sad that my photographs of Egyptian churches and monasteries were used in a huge extend because of these catastrophes happened to the Coptic Christians since last year. --RolandUnger (talk) 18:13, 28 May 2017 (UTC)

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