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Tabennisi
Tabennisi was a village on the Nile in Upper Egypt, near Dendera, where Pachomius founded the first Christian communal monastery in the 320s. The community grew quickly, and Pachomius organised a federation of monasteries under a common rule. His followers were known as Tabennesiots, and the site is regarded as a birthplace of communal monasticism.
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