THE CHRISTIAN MONASTERY

The best preserved medieval monastery in Sudan. Located in the desert of the Bayuda, a decor peculiar to contemplation and prayer, it was relatively preserved armed assaults and still retains high walls thick walls, marble slabs as well as arcades and enceinte. With Old Dongola and Faras frescoes, this is the most beautiful testimony of the Christian era in Nubia. Certainly linked to the monastery of Saint-Antoine in the Egyptian Sinai and the Church of Alexandria, the monastery fell into désuétude as Islam was required in the region.