Qasr Hur

Qasr Hur (Arabic: قصر هور‎) is a village in the governorate of Minya, Egypt, around 300 km south of Cairo, on the edge of the Western Desert. The village is predominantly Muslim with a small Christian minority. The Coptic Orthodox priest of Qasr Hur Father Matias Kamal has been tending the ruined church of the Monastery of Abu Fanah now, and since the mid eighties of the 20th The Coptic Orthodox priest of used to be responsible for the Monastery.

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