The Coptic Museum lies behind the walls of the castle's famous Romanian Babylon in Old Cairo area named (ancient Egypt). The area surrounding the museum abounds in lively monuments during the "open museum" that depicts the history of the Coptic period in Egypt. Mark built a thick Pasha Museum in 1910 to collect material necessary to study the history of Christianity in Egypt, he succeeded in this project. There were different museums at that time in Egypt: Cairo Museum of Ancient Pharaonic, Greek museum - Roman and Alexandria Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo.The Coptic Museum was built to fill a gap in Egyptian history and art. The wide range of antiques, most of which are significant of great importance to Coptic art in the world they are found in this museum which is about 16000 pieces.The old wing of the museum is a wonderful piece of architecture is a series of rooms widening. In 1931 the Egyptian government has characterized the importance of the Coptic Museum and caused the state. In 1947 opened the new wing of the broad, similar to the old model with the wing. In 1984, President Hosni Mubarak opened the renovations of the museum.The old wing of the museum houses a collection of furniture and wooden inlaid doors. It should be noted that it includes the door, made of sycamore wood, stand icons of your church of Saint Barbara. The panels are marked as having been crafted in the Fatimid period during the eleventh century and the second century.The collection housed in the new wing, which shows the different types and styles and topics, such as engineering design, coil plant acanthus and vine leaves, and Avrizzat decorated Boranb, peacocks, birds, and rural activities, through the heritage of Hellenistic arts and Coptic even formulas Islamic art in Egypt.Subscribe To
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MORGAN WEBB
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Friday, 26 November 2010
Coptic Museum
The Coptic Museum lies behind the walls of the castle's famous Romanian Babylon in Old Cairo area named (ancient Egypt). The area surrounding the museum abounds in lively monuments during the "open museum" that depicts the history of the Coptic period in Egypt. Mark built a thick Pasha Museum in 1910 to collect material necessary to study the history of Christianity in Egypt, he succeeded in this project. There were different museums at that time in Egypt: Cairo Museum of Ancient Pharaonic, Greek museum - Roman and Alexandria Museum of Islamic Art in Cairo.The Coptic Museum was built to fill a gap in Egyptian history and art. The wide range of antiques, most of which are significant of great importance to Coptic art in the world they are found in this museum which is about 16000 pieces.The old wing of the museum is a wonderful piece of architecture is a series of rooms widening. In 1931 the Egyptian government has characterized the importance of the Coptic Museum and caused the state. In 1947 opened the new wing of the broad, similar to the old model with the wing. In 1984, President Hosni Mubarak opened the renovations of the museum.The old wing of the museum houses a collection of furniture and wooden inlaid doors. It should be noted that it includes the door, made of sycamore wood, stand icons of your church of Saint Barbara. The panels are marked as having been crafted in the Fatimid period during the eleventh century and the second century.The collection housed in the new wing, which shows the different types and styles and topics, such as engineering design, coil plant acanthus and vine leaves, and Avrizzat decorated Boranb, peacocks, birds, and rural activities, through the heritage of Hellenistic arts and Coptic even formulas Islamic art in Egypt.