Egypt restores oldest monastery
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February 5, 2010, Friday
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EGYPT'S antiquities chief yesterday unveiled the completion of an eight-year, US$14.5 million restoration of the world's oldest Christian monastery, saying it was a sign of Christian-Muslim coexistence.
The announcement at the 1,600-year-old St Anthony's Monastery came a month after Egypt's worst sectarian violence in over a decade, when a shooting on a church on Orthodox Christmas Eve killed seven people.
Egypt insists the shooting was a purely criminal act with no sectarian motives, and officials persistently deny the existence of significant Muslim-Christian frictions.
Top archeologist Zahi Hawass took the opportunity to reiterate that stance as he showed journalists the work at St Anthony's. "The announcement we are making today shows to the world how we are keen to restore the monuments of our past, whether Coptic, Jewish or Muslim," he said, referring to the dominant Orthodox Coptic Christian sect in Egypt.
The announcement at the 1,600-year-old St Anthony's Monastery came a month after Egypt's worst sectarian violence in over a decade, when a shooting on a church on Orthodox Christmas Eve killed seven people.
Egypt insists the shooting was a purely criminal act with no sectarian motives, and officials persistently deny the existence of significant Muslim-Christian frictions.
Top archeologist Zahi Hawass took the opportunity to reiterate that stance as he showed journalists the work at St Anthony's. "The announcement we are making today shows to the world how we are keen to restore the monuments of our past, whether Coptic, Jewish or Muslim," he said, referring to the dominant Orthodox Coptic Christian sect in Egypt.
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