Cairo No. 1 / Al-Qāhirah / Mar Mina

INFORMATION

Font ID: 07613CAI
Object Type: Baptismal Font3
Font Century and Period/Style: 6th century, Early Christian
Church / Chapel Name: Church of Saint Menas
Font Location in Church: In the SE area of the church; access to the baptistery is from the S end of the choir, through a long vaulted passage
Church Patron Saint(s): St. Menas [Mar Mina]
Site Location: Cairo, Egypt, Africa
Directions to Site: Located in Old Cairo, in the area known as Fum al-Khalig, in the Al-Hamra, in the northernmost corner of the Christian cemeterynear Shari' al-Sadd al-Barrani
Font Notes:
Sunken baptismal font in the old church of St. Menas [to be researched]-- referred to in Palol (153 fn24) who cites U. Monneret de Villard's La basilica cristiana in Egitto", in IV CIArchCrist., 293, fig. 1, as source.