Common Contracts
1 similar Sustainable Management Plan contracts
for the RED MONASTERY, SOHAG Nicholas Warner Cultural Heritage Tourism Project in Egypt (APS) USAID Agreement No. 263-A-15-00007Sustainable Management Plan • March 29th, 2019
The first major conservation intervention at the Red Monastery Church in modern history lasted from 1909 to 1912. This was executed by the forerunner of the present Ministry of Antiquities, the ‘Committee for the Conservation of Monuments of Arab Art’, and focused on structural consolidation of the sanctuary. At the time, although the church was functioning as a site of worship monastic activity at the site had long ceased. This revived in 1999, when the Monastery was re-established with the present abbot, Abuna Antonious, as the leader of the Monastery. The re-use of the historic complex, combined with inappropriate restoration work in the 1990s by local contractors working for the Supreme Council of Antiquities, caused serious physical and aesthetic damage to the church, some of which is irreversible. From 2004-2012, the American Research Center in Egypt with funding from the United States Agency for International Development embarked on a new conservation project at the site in part
