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Warsaw Museum: Medieval Christian Paintings-Treasures of Faras Hidden in the Desert Sands. Culture.pl on Nov 18, 2014 The only collection of medieval Christian paintings from the Nile Valley in Europe …More
Warsaw Museum: Medieval Christian Paintings-Treasures of Faras Hidden in the Desert Sands.
Culture.pl on Nov 18, 2014 The only collection of medieval Christian paintings from the Nile Valley in Europe, the Faras Gallery is to be re-opened at the National Museum in Warsaw. Culture.pl’s camera looks behind the scenes of the exhibition’s formation, to the conservation lab, taking part in the difficult process of hanging the paintings in the gallery. Stefan Jakobielski, an archeologist, speaks about the moment of the paintings’ discovery in the 60s during an expedition he undertook.
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✍️ Sudan was, for centuries, the heart of a vigorous Coptic Orthodox kingdom.
By the end of the 6th century Nubia, as Sudan was then known, had coverted to Monophysite Coptic Christianity (although there is some evidence of Byzantine Christanity in the early years as well.) When Egypt was conquered by the Islamic armies, Nubia was cut off from the rest of Christendom. Most people, and therefore,…More
✍️ Sudan was, for centuries, the heart of a vigorous Coptic Orthodox kingdom.
By the end of the 6th century Nubia, as Sudan was then known, had coverted to Monophysite Coptic Christianity (although there is some evidence of Byzantine Christanity in the early years as well.) When Egypt was conquered by the Islamic armies, Nubia was cut off from the rest of Christendom. Most people, and therefore, most Christians lived in northern Nubia.

In 641 and 651 Arab armies from Egypt invaded Nubia but were repulsed. Christian Nubia was one of the few countries who successfully resisted Muslim conquest in the first Muslim century. A rare treaty known as the baqt was signed creating a relative peace between the two sides that lasted until the 13th century. The baqt lasted nearly 700 years and may be the longest lasting treaty in history.

The Christian kingdom of Makuria expanded. The period from roughly 750 to 1150 saw the kingdom stable and prosperous, in what has been called the “Golden Age”. The king of Makuria became the defender of the Coptic patriarch of Alexandria, occasionally intervening militarily to protect him.

Exquisite frescoes from that era survived. Many, like this stunning image of St. Anna now in a Warsaw museum, were removed before the Cathedral of Faras was drowned by the building of Aswan Dam in the 60’s.
www.siena.org/January-2011/sudanese-christ…