Top Things to do in Qena
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The 5 Best Things to do in Qena, Nile River Valley
Discover the best top things to do in Qena, Egypt including Dendera Temple Complex, Sidi Abd Er-Rahim Mosque, Kome el dabie Ancient Ferka textiles workshop, Latour travel, Nubet pyramid.
1. Dendera Temple Complex
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The Dendera Temple complex is located 60 kms upstream from Luxor. Covering an area 40,000 square meters, the complex is surrounded by a mud brick wall. What you see dates from the Ptolemaic and Roman eras, but it was a site for chapels and shrines from earlier times. The Dendra Temple Complex was a place of pilgrimage and healing. Patients seeking a cure were housed in hospitals (sanatorium) where they could be treated. Some people think that spiritual healing was a key feature of the treatment. It is thought that miraculous cures were attributed to Hathor the Goddess of love, healing, and fertility. Think of Dendra as a one stop hospital where various physiological and psychological conditions were treated using up to date therapies including magical spells, dreams and cleansing rituals. Offering were made to the goddess in front of the inner sanctuary. Holy water flowing over magical inscriptions on the base of the stature of the goddess is thought to play a part in the healing process. The Dendera Temple complex consists of: • Temple of Hathor (the main temple) • Birth of Isis Temple • Sacred Lake • Sanatorium • Mammisi of Nectanebo II (birth house) • Christian Basilica • Roman Mammisi (birth house) • a Barque shrine • Gateways of Domitian and Trajan • a Roman Kiosk Today, the Dendra Temple Complex resonates with the chirps of birds that make their home in cracks and ledges in the temple walls. Wander around this Holy Place and contemplate your own mortality. Its good food for the soul.
2. Sidi Abd Er-Rahim Mosque
3. Kome el dabie Ancient Ferka textiles workshop
4. Latour travel
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