| Garagos جراجوسJarajus | |
|---|---|
  GaragosLocation in Egypt | |
| Coordinates: 25°52′05.1″N 32°45′23.8″E / 25.868083°N 32.756611°E / 25.868083; 32.756611 | |
| Country |  Egypt |
| Governorate | Qena Governorate |
| Population | |
| • Total | 20,427 |
Garagos (Arabic: جراجوس) is a village in Qena Governorate in Egypt, which is famous for "Garagos Pottery".
The older name of the village is Jazirat Qaraqush (Arabic: جزيرة قراقش).
This village is the birthplace of Saint Verena.
History
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.
References
- "البيانات السكانية لمدينة أو قرية حسب تقديرات السكان 2006". الجهاز المصري المركزي للإحصاء. Archived from the original on 15 August 2012. Retrieved 12 August 2012.
- Elkamel, Sarah (17 Dec 2010). "Folk Arts: Garagos pottery in town". Al-Ahram. Retrieved 28 May 2016.
- Ibn Mammati. Kitāb Qawānīn al-Dawāwīn (in Arabic). p. 167.
- Mayeur-Jaouen, Catherine (2019). Voyage en Haute-Égypte : prêtres, coptes et catholiques. Robert Solé. Paris. pp. 116–17. ISBN 978-2-271-11614-7. OCLC 1081303684.
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