ANNUNCIATION ICON IN THE CHURCHES OF ABU SERGA, THE HANGING CHURCH IN ANCIENT EGYPT, AND TAHA IN MINYA (18TH-19TH AD), AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ARTISTIC STUDY

Abstract

This research deals with one of the religious images in Coptic art, which represents the icon of the Annunciation, as Coptic photographers excelled in expressing this event as an expression of what was mentioned about this story in the Bible, and it refers to the event of the angel Gabriel’s announcement to the Virgin Mary, of the birth of Jesus Christ, which St. Luke was the only one in his Gospel to narrate them, and the study deals with three icons, the first in the Church of Abu Serga in Cairo, in ancient Egypt, the second in the Hanging Church in Cairo and the third in the Church of Taha in Minya,. It is produced by photographers Hanna Al-Armani, Anasati Al-Rumi, Ibrahim Al-Nasikh and Youhanna Al-Armani.