Kurna

Also known as Qurna, Gourna, Gurna, Qurnah, Qurneh

Kurna (also Gourna, Gurna, Qurna, Qurnah or Qurneh; ) 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.

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Place details

Locality: مدينه القرنة الجديدة
Region: الأقصر
Country: مصر
Population: 0

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Kurna
Settlement.other_name: Gourna
Settlement.native_name: القرنة
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.image_skyline: Gournah.jpg
Settlement.imagesize: 300px
Settlement.image_caption: Village of Qurna
Settlement.pushpin_map: Egypt
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: bottom
Settlement.pushpin_mapsize: 300
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Egypt
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Governorate
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Luxor Governorate
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.area_total_km2: 21.7
Settlement.population_as_of: 2023
Settlement.population_total: 41,233

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Image: Gournah.jpg

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Commons category: Qurna

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Article

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Contents

Historical use of the name Qurna
The villages
New Qurna (or New Gourna)
New Qurna downside
Qurna (or Old Gourna)
Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Restoration at New Gourna
See also
References
External links

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.