Tabennisi

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Tabennisi was an early Christian monastic settlement in Upper Egypt, renowned as the site where Pachomius the Great founded one of the first organized cenobitic monasteries.

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Tabennisi canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Christian monastic settlement
ancient village
archaeological site
associatedWith Pachomius the Great
associatedWithOrder Pachomian monks
linked to: Desert Fathers
contrastedWith eremitic monasticism
country Egypt
documentedIn Coptic hagiographical texts
Greek hagiographical texts
Pachomian Lives
economicBasis communal labor
floruitCentury 4th century
foundedBy Pachomius the Great
foundedInCentury 4th century
governanceStructure communal rule under an abbot
governedByRule Rule of Pachomius
linked to: Pachomian Rule
hasAlternativeName Pachomian monastery of Tabennisi
Tabennese
linked to: Turoyo

Tabennisi monastery
hasGenderOfMainCommunity male
hasMonasticRuleFeature common property
regulated work and prayer schedule
strict obedience
hasNotableResident Pachomius the Great
Theodore of Tabennisi
hasRole model for later cenobitic monasteries
hasTypeOfCommunity coenobium
heritage Coptic Orthodox monastic heritage
historicalPeriod Late Antiquity
influenced Basilian monastic tradition
Benedictine monastic tradition
linked to: Benedictines

later Christian monasticism
knownFor early Christian cenobitic monasticism
one of the first organized cenobitic monasteries
languageOfCommunity Coptic
Greek
locatedIn Upper Egypt
locatedOn east bank of the Nile
monasticTradition cenobitic
near modern Faw Qibli
partOf Christian monastic sites in Egypt
Pachomian monastic federation
region Thebaid
religion Christianity
spiritualPractice ascetic discipline
communal prayer
traditionHoldsFoundedBy Pachomius after his conversion to Christianity

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