دير الملاك غبريال بجبل, Dajr el-Malak Ghubrail, Dayr al-Malāk Ghubriyāl, also: Dajr el-Naqlun, Dayr al-Naqlūn or Dayr Abū al-Khashabah, Dajr Abu al-Chaszaba)[1] – a Coptic monastery of the Archangel Gabriel located in northern Egypt, in the Faiyum Oasis, 16 km south-east of the city of Faiyum in the Libyan Desert.
[2] Since 1986, it is investigated by a team of researchers from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology University of Warsaw, headed by Prof. Włodzimierz Godlewski.
The monastery has been functioning since the 5th century to the present day, but its organization changed with time.
[7] Depictions of the Archangel Gabriel, St. Mercurius, St. George, the Holy Virgin, Christ, Psote (Bisada), and St. Simeon Stylites dated to the 11th century were uncovered on its walls.
[4][5] Wall paintings of the Holy Virgin and the Apostles adorned the central apse.