Garagos
جراجوس Jarajus | |
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Coordinates: 25°52′05.1″N 32°45′23.8″E / 25.868083°N 32.756611°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Governorate | Qena Governorate |
Population (2006) | |
• Total | 20,427 [1] |
Garagos ( Arabic: جراجوس) is a village in Qena Governorate in Egypt, which is famous for "Garagos Pottery". [2]
The older name of the village is Jazirat Qaraqush ( Arabic: جزيرة قراقش). [3]
This village is the birthplace of Saint Verena.
The village became a center for the development projects of the first Egyptian NGO, the Association of Haute-Égypte (Association of Upper Egypt), founded by Catholic missionaries including the Jesuits Stéphane de Montgolfier (1907–2000), Maurice de Fenoyl (1909–2004), and Philippe Ackermann (1914). The association founded a School in 1947. Later under the leadership of Ackermann the village established a pottery studio and installed its workshops in a Nubian-style domed mud-brick building built by the celebrated architect Hassan Fathy. They also founded a weaving studio for young women, which aimed to provide more opportunities for female development, under the supervision of Folla el-Masri (1919–2003), an Egyptian woman from Asyut. In the 1950s and '60s the village's artisanal workshops attracted French and Swiss tourists who visited nearby Luxor and offered a model for linking tourism to rural development. [4]
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Garagos
جراجوس Jarajus | |
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Coordinates: 25°52′05.1″N 32°45′23.8″E / 25.868083°N 32.756611°E | |
Country | ![]() |
Governorate | Qena Governorate |
Population (2006) | |
• Total | 20,427 [1] |
Garagos ( Arabic: جراجوس) is a village in Qena Governorate in Egypt, which is famous for "Garagos Pottery". [2]
The older name of the village is Jazirat Qaraqush ( Arabic: جزيرة قراقش). [3]
This village is the birthplace of Saint Verena.
The village became a center for the development projects of the first Egyptian NGO, the Association of Haute-Égypte (Association of Upper Egypt), founded by Catholic missionaries including the Jesuits Stéphane de Montgolfier (1907–2000), Maurice de Fenoyl (1909–2004), and Philippe Ackermann (1914). The association founded a School in 1947. Later under the leadership of Ackermann the village established a pottery studio and installed its workshops in a Nubian-style domed mud-brick building built by the celebrated architect Hassan Fathy. They also founded a weaving studio for young women, which aimed to provide more opportunities for female development, under the supervision of Folla el-Masri (1919–2003), an Egyptian woman from Asyut. In the 1950s and '60s the village's artisanal workshops attracted French and Swiss tourists who visited nearby Luxor and offered a model for linking tourism to rural development. [4]
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