Kurna
Place in Luxor Governorate, Egypt / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kurna (also Gourna, Gurna, Qurna, Qurnah or Qurneh; Arabic: القرنة) is a group of three closely related villages (New Qurna, Qurna and Sheikh Abd el-Qurna) located on the West Bank of the River Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor in Egypt near the Theban Hills.
Kurna | |
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Coordinates: 25°43′30″N 32°37′15″E | |
Country | Egypt |
Governorate | Luxor Governorate |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | +3 |
New Qurna was designed and built in the late 1940s and early 1950s by Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy to house people living in Qurna which is now uninhabited. New Qurna was added to the 2010 World Monuments Watch List of Most Endangered Sites to bring attention to the site's importance to modern town planning and vernacular architecture due to the loss of much of the original form of the village since it was built.