Red Monastery Interior

north trefoil: two rows of niches below the half dome

(scroll down for niches).

Restorers clearened a test patch of the dome painting in 2002, revealing fine early painting.
In the picture below, the test patch area is deliberately blotted out until results can be published:
see a brief notice and picture
on the website of the American Research Center in Egypt (scroll down to Coptic section)

Conservation continued in 2003, cleaning paintings in most of this area of the church.
More work is planned for the fall of 2004

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