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St .Mark is the first Evangelist, came and settled in
Alexandria in the latter half of the first century AD. Since then, the
teachings of Christianity spread in Egypt, leaving everlasting imprints in
the form of churches and monasteries that are filled with paintings of the
saints, testifying to the grandeur, beauty and mastery of Egyptian Coptic
art.
The Coptic period is of special significance , since it constituted a link
between the Greco – Roman and Islamic periods . With the dawn of the 7th
century AD, Islam was revealed and spread throughout the Arabian peninsula
,and from there it reached to enlighten the Nile Valley at the hands of
Amr Ibn Al-Aas in 20 H.,640 AD.
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