Monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor

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The monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor , Deir el-Anba Samu'il, Arabic: دير الأنبا صموئيل المعترف is a Coptic monastery in the governorate of Bani Suwaif in Egypt . It goes back to Samuel the Confessor who founded it.

In the attack on a pilgrim bus to this monastery on May 26, 2017, 28 people were killed in the governorate of al-Minya .

Web links

Commons : Monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Another attack on Copts , tagesschau.de, May 26, 2017

Coordinates: 28 ° 54 ′ 43.7 "  N , 30 ° 30 ′ 26.1"  E