Coptic Hospital
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| Coptic Hospital | |
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| Egyptian Government | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Cairo, Egypt |
| Coordinates | 30°3′47″N 31°15′9″E / 30.06306°N 31.25250°E |
| Organisation | |
| Type | General |
| History | |
| Opened | 1920 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in Egypt |
The Coptic Hospital (Arabic:المستشفى القبطي) is a hospital in Cairo, Egypt.
History
[edit]The idea of establishing a hospital by the Coptic Orthodox Church started in the late 19th century; in the 1920s in a group of Coptic doctors met together on a regular basis for fellowship and discussion. This group included El Menyawi Pasha, Naguib Pasha Mahfouz, Guergis (Guirguis) Pasha Antoun and many others. This group founded the charity al-Jam'iyyat al-Khayriyyah al-Kibtiyyah Kubra (the Coptic Philanthropic Society). They established the hospital on Ramses Street in Azbakeya and owned other properties (both land and commercial apartment buildings). Naguib Pasha Mahfouz worked in it. Guergis Pasha Antoun ran the hospital for many years.[1] (marvin, 2015).[2]
Cairo Coptic Hospital was nationalised in the 1960s and is currently run by a government body. The Coptic Church continued to give the name to its hospitals outside Egypt.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Watani international Archived 31 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Fallas, Amy (22 January 2025). ""The First Duty of Charity": Medical Philanthropy, Sectarian Infrastructures, and Legacies of the Coptic Hospital in Twentieth-Century Cairo". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East: 11706951. doi:10.1215/1089201X-11706951. ISSN 1089-201X.
- ^ egyptopia.com. "The Copts in The History of Egypt - Egypt History, Where the whole story begins : -". egyptopia.com. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
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