Cairo No. 1 / Al-Qāhirah / Mar Mina

INFORMATION

FontID: 07613CAI
Church/Chapel: Church of Saint Menas
Church Patron Saints: St. Menas [Mar Mina]
Country Name: Egypt
Location: Cairo
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 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
Century and Period: 6th century, Early Christian
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.