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Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral (Alexandria) Lists of Coptic church buildings cover church buildings that employ the Alexandrian Rite. They are organized by region or country. Egypt which is where the Coptic religion began is listed in Africa, although Egypt is in Africa and in Asia.
The cathedral is located in the place of a village called p-Sovt em-p-Hoi (Coptic: ⲡⲥⲟⲃⲧ ⲙ̀ⲡϩⲟⲓ "the wall of the moat") which had been given to the Coptic Church in 969 by Jawhar. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] This land was a replacement for the land that was taken from the church to be included in building the Palace of Al-Mu'izz li ...
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A cathedral church is a Christian place of worship that is the chief, or "mother" church of a diocese and is distinguished as such by being the location for the cathedra or bishop's seat. In the strictest sense, only those Christian denominations with an episcopal hierarchy possess cathedrals.
The Coptic Church of St Mark in Kensington, London, opened in 1863 at St John's Presbyterian Church, reconsecrated as a Coptic Orthodox church in 1979.. The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria has several churches in Great Britain and Ireland under the jurisdiction of four diocesan bishops.
A modern Coptic cathedral in Aswan. All churches of the Coptic Orthodox Church are designed to face the eastward direction of prayer and efforts are made to remodel churches obtained from other Christian denominations that are not built in this fashion. [77] In Coptic Orthodox Christianity, fasting is defined as going without meat or dairy. [78]
The Coptic Catholic Church [a] is an Eastern Catholic particular Church in full communion with the Catholic Church. Along with the Ethiopian Catholic Church and Eritrean Catholic Church , it belongs to the Alexandrian liturgical tradition.
Archangel Michael's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral is a Coptic church located in Aswan, Egypt. It is the second largest Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Egypt. The church is dedicated to Archangel Michael. The church was consecrated in 2006. [1]