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Artistic and Archaeological Study on Six Wooden Screen Walls in Assiut Churches.

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Last updated: 27 Dec 2024

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Coptic Art and Architecture.

Abstract

Screen Wall or Iconostasis (Hijab) in the church that separates the sanctuary from the area of prayers.The idea of separation the sanctuary from the area of compression was started in the early church. The Arab word for screen wall (Hijab) 1which literally means curtains but Copts did not prefer to call it Hijab. Some scholars and historians mentioned that the term of Hijab is incorrect translation to Greek word screen wall which means the place for hanging icons its wrongly named as Hijab like the Hijab of sanctuary of Solomon the church neglects this name as its function was not to hide the sanctuary, the symbolism of screen wall as a part of church refer to the truth of the church as holy icon of Jerusalem it represents with icons celestial case for prayers 2 . This study aims to show the importance of the iconostases according to the analytical descriptive method of the examined iconostases, the material they were made of. This is followed by the analytical study of what was decorated on the iconostases, the Coptic and Arabic languages that were written on the iconostases and the ways of carving on the wood and the floral and geometrical decorations that appeared on these iconostases. The most important results of this paper is that the panels which topped the iconostases are  inscribed with Arabic and Coptic writings. 

DOI

10.21608/mjthr.2016.225960

Keywords

Iconostases -Archangel - Assiut - Wood, Dayr Rifah, Dayr Tasa-Saint George-Virgin Mary- Floral decorations- Coptic

Authors

First Name

Shaban

Last Name

Abd Elrazik Mohammed

MiddleName

Samir

Affiliation

Faculty of Tourism and Hotels - Minia University

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1

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2

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20655

Issue Date

2016-12-01

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2016-09-04

Publish Date

2016-12-20

Page Start

335

Page End

358

Print ISSN

2357-0652

Online ISSN

2735-4741

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1,533

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Minia Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research MJTHR

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Artistic and Archaeological Study on Six Wooden Screen Walls in Assiut Churches.

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23 Jan 2023