.this mosque is on the main bus route through town not sure why they have a road checkpoint police tower next to it. but they do rather strange things here in Egypt.
.The rear of the new build Coptic Church as seen from the railway line in Luxor.
.Palm fronds these are being sold for Palm sunday as its a big event in the Coptic callender.
I may go to the church tomorrow see why they sell the fronds. knowing the copts maybe they put it down for the baba to walk on, would not surprise me they put more emphasis on prayer to Mary than the savior.
but saying that they have a very strong faith. after all they put up with from the Muslim in this country,
and Copts were here a few hundred years before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copt
Copts are Egyptians whose ancestors embraced Christianity in the first centuries after Christ.
One week ago in the this Coptic Church the second building in the frame.
the Priest was forcibly removed from his office and dragged downstairs by the secret police the bully boys of the guvorner of Luxor Dr Samir Fawak. the priests wife was molested. this was done in front of several witnesses of whome some took photos the police confiscated every camera and mobile phone within seeing distance. and took all the films and sim cards away. a bit like Adolf Hitlers Nazi tactics in ww11.
The reason ? they want the Church down to continue the work on the 50 million dollar avenue of the Spinx
and yet they have refurbished the Mosque that sits on the stone walls of the Luxor Temple. this place had a convenient fire in 2006 . and the Luxor City council allocated American aid for it to be updated??
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The Mosque was dedicated to the first Muslim in Luxor, Looks real nice now especially electrically lit up at night not with candles as it would have been for centuries a few years after they put electric in it caught fire.
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the Priest was forcibly removed from his office and dragged downstairs by the secret police the bully boys of the guvorner of Luxor Dr Samir Fawak. the priests wife was molested. this was done in front of several witnesses of whome some took photos the police confiscated every camera and mobile phone within seeing distance. and took all the films and sim cards away. a bit like Adolf Hitlers Nazi tactics in ww11.
The reason ? they want the Church down to continue the work on the 50 million dollar avenue of the Spinx
and yet they have refurbished the Mosque that sits on the stone walls of the Luxor Temple. this place had a convenient fire in 2006 . and the Luxor City council allocated American aid for it to be updated??
.The Mosque was dedicated to the first Muslim in Luxor, Looks real nice now especially electrically lit up at night not with candles as it would have been for centuries a few years after they put electric in it caught fire.
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