- Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite
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Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite
The Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite, also Deir Anba Boula, is a Coptic Orthodox monastery located in the Eastern Desert, near the Red Sea mountains. The monastery is also known as the Monastery of the Tigers. The Monastery is dating back to the 5th century AD and it was founded over the cave where Saint Paul the Anchorite lived for eighty years.
The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, The monasteries of the Arab Desert and Wadi Natrun.by LorisRomito, GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 343 m
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UNESCO Tentative List
Date of Submission
2003
5th Century AD
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