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Visit St Simeon Monastery, Aswan, Egypt

St Simeon's Monastery is located opposite the southern tip of Elephantine Island. This ancient, abandoned fortress monastery mostly built during the 7th century and located near Aswan. The monastery was given the name St Simeon by archaeologists and travelers, but earlier Arabic and Coptic sources called it Anba Hatre (Hidra, Hadri, Hadra), after an anchorite who was...