Fayoum Governorate celebrated, this Saturday morning, the phenomenon of the sun perpendicular to the Holy of Holies in Qasr Qarun Temple, which occurs on the morning of the twenty-first of December every year, as a committee from the Fayoum Governorate Tourism Administration, in cooperation with the governorate’s antiquities area, monitored And documenting the phenomenon.
This came in the presence of Major General Abdullah Fleifel, Deputy Director of Fayoum Security, and Brigadier General Mahmoud Shuaib, Commissioner of the Department of Tourism and Antiquities. In the governorate, Ashraf Sobhi, Director General of Fayoum Antiquities, Dr. Moataz Ahmed Abdel Fattah, Director General of Tourism in the governorate, Sherine Mohamed Mahmoud, head of the local unit of the center and city of Youssef Al-Siddiq, and a number of executive and security leaders, and citizens.
It is a phenomenon of perpendicularity. The sun on Qasr Qarun Temple, a unique astronomical architectural phenomenon, where the sun is perpendicular to the Holy of Holies of the temple coinciding with the beginning of the winter season, which is… Signaling the beginning of winter in the northern hemisphere, Qasr Qarun Temple is located on the southwestern side of Lake Qarun and dates back to the Greco-Roman era.
Since the discovery of the phenomenon of the sun perpendicular to Qasr Qarun Temple, the governorate has paid great attention to it. Because it is a unique phenomenon that characterizes the governorate, and contributes to stimulating the tourism movement and introducing the tourist, archaeological, cultural and environmental capabilities that the governorate abounds in.
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