{"id":36955,"date":"2016-05-15T13:39:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-15T11:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/site\/?p=36955"},"modified":"2016-05-15T13:39:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-15T11:39:46","slug":"%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%ab%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%82-%d8%a8%d8%a3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%ad%d8%ab%d9%88%d9%86-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%83%d9%86%d9%8a%d8%b3%d8%a9-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%82%d8%af%d9%8a%d9%85%d8%a9-%d8%a8%d8%af%d9%8a%d8%b1-%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%ad%d8%b1%d9%82-%d8%a8%d8%a3\/","title":{"rendered":"Researchers: the old church in Al Muharraq monastery in Assiut is the oldest in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Father Vlixinos Al-Muharraqi, one of the monks of Muharraq monastery in Assiut, said that the old church at the monastery (Our Lady\u00a0Church), is the abandoned house where the Holy Family lived , pointing out that it\u00a0is the oldest place in the world where a church was built.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">He explained that when this house turned\u00a0to a\u00a0church\u00a0in the early Christian era, partitions and barriers has been made in line with\u00a0the church order.\u00a0East room built along with\u00a0two rooms North for priests\u00a0clothes, without a door, opens on the nave, and the South to serve the Deaconess, pointing out that the church structure is characterized with the \u00a0altar\u00a0stone , which is known to archaeologists that it is used since the early era, a stone that Jesus Christ sat on according to the tradition.<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'andale mono', times; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">This came during a celebration organized by Antiquities\u00a0Committee at\u00a0the Supreme Council for Culture, and its executive, Dr. Mohamed Abdel-Hadi, to highlight the cultural and tourist\u00a0importance of the Holy Family flight, and that in the monastery of Muharraq in Assiut, the last\u00a0Holy Family stations in Egypt, under the auspices of the Culture Minister Hilmi El-Nimnim, Dr. Amal El-Saban\u00a0the Secretary General of the Council.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father Vlixinos Al-Muharraqi, one of the monks of Muharraq monastery in Assiut, said that the old church at the monastery (Our Lady\u00a0Church), is the abandoned house where the Holy Family lived , pointing out that it\u00a0is the oldest place in the world where a church was built. He explained that when this house turned\u00a0to a\u00a0church\u00a0in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":36956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,74],"tags":[5153,5154,5152,5151,5155,1846,5150,1062,5148,5147,5149],"class_list":["post-36955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-74","tag-al-muharraq-monastery","tag-assiut","tag-old-church","tag-researchers","tag-world","tag-1846","tag-5150","tag-1062","tag-5148","tag-5147","tag-5149"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36955"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36967,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36955\/revisions\/36967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/copticocc.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}