Syriac Monasteries in Egypt

Syriac Monasteries in Egypt

• Dayr Al-Anba Antonios

• Dayro d'Mor Antunyo: A famous learning center and housed a large group of scholars. Here in the early seventh century, Bishop Tuma Harqloyo translated the New Testament from Greek into Syriac. Also several works by Jacob of Edessa were written here

• Dayr Al-Anba Bishoy: According to legends it was visited by St. Ephrem the Syrian

• Dayr al-Khandaq: Destroyed in 1279

• Dayr Al-Zugag (The Glass Monastery): 

• Dayro d'Mor Barsawmo

• Dayr Mor Girgis: Dayr al-Anba Samuyel

• Dayr Al-Iqlim 

• Dayr Al-Anba Maqaryos: Built in the 8th century, one of three monasteries named after Anba Maqaryos. The remaining two belonged to the Coptic church. 

• Dayr Mariam Al-'Adra: This is a different monastery from the one at Deir Al-Surian

• Dayro d'Mar Mikhael: Probably located at the same spot as the contemporary Coptic Monastery of Archangel Gabriel, on Mount Naqlun near the city of Fayyum.

• Dayr Al-Anba Pola: Had a large library

• Dayro d'Mor Romanus Rabo: This is where Jacob Baradaeus lived (6th century). 

• Dayr al-Anba Samuyel: Also known as Dayr al-Qalamun.

• Dayro d'Mor Severus­ Rabo: Described as a huge building erected on the spot where St Severus of Antioch died in 538. 

• Dayro d'Mor Teodor

• Dayr  Al-Anba Yuhanna Al-Sagir

• Dayr Mar Yunan

Sources:

• Abdalla, Michael and Miroslaw Rucki, Poznan (2022), To the South-East of Rome: Relations between the Syriac and Coptic Churches. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, Band 172 - Hefy 2