Visit Monastery of Saint Anthony in Hurghada Holidays

If you are planning your holidays to Hurghada you can visit ancient Monastery of Saint Anthony. This is great place for the history lovers who want to explore this Egyptian town.
If you are planning your holidays in Hurghada visit an ancient Coptic Christian Monastery of Saint Anthony. This is considered as oldest monastery in the world and carries on rites hundreds of years old. Here you can discover many facts about the St. Anthony. As a saint he contributed a lot to extend of the thought of monasticism around Western Europe. He becomes one of the first extensively known written works in Christian literature of the middle ages and life of the saint became remarkable one. This place is one of the very well known of the “Desert Fathers”, or crowd of Christian monks who survived in the Egyptian Sahara Desert at starting of the third century. St. Anthony’s ultimate hidden place would finally become the oldest settled Christian monastery in the world. Hurghada holidays give the opportunity to explore more about this oldest monastery.

Before booking your holidays to Hurghada you can research well about this place. The Monastery of Saint Anthony is situated in the eastern Sahara Desert of Egypt, near to the present Hurghada. It was constructed only a few years after the death of St. Anthony, who was believed to live here for around one hundred and five years. If you are booking your Hurghada holiday packages you can include this Monastery in it. St. Anthony had journeyed to this place around his 16th year to flee from those looking for insight and guidance and who he supposed reserved him from his worship. After traveling for three days in the desert he staggered upon an oasis bounded by trees, and this is where this monastery was constructed in 356. You can choose best Hurghada holiday deals online to reach this destination in affordable prices.

While enjoying Hurghada tours you can visit place to explore more facts about this place. The monastery’s history is not clearly recognized anywhere, though it is considered that it was assaulted several times by the Bedouins and Berber in the desert area. In fact, this occurred to such grave influence upon the monastery that in year 1454 the monks built fortress walls to supply against future demolition and pillage. If you will book your cheap holidays to Hurghada you can see this interesting place. It is also considered that the monastery endured a disastrous attack in the 11th century and many of its important manuscripts and paintings were destroyed by Bedouin attackers. Book your cheap flights to this destination and explore more points from the history of this monastery.