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Music · Ibrahim Ayad · 2019El Qodas Elghorghory (Coptic Mass Hymns)
89 min
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The hymns of the Gregorian liturgy, one of the three eucharistic rites still sung in the Coptic Orthodox Church.

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Coptic Alhan

Ibrahim Ayad

Coptic Orthodox cantor and head deacon at the cathedral in Cairo, and one of the few living authorities on the hymns of the Church of Alexandria. He teaches alhan, the church's chant, at the Higher Institute of Coptic Studies, and has recorded the whole liturgical year on his own so that a tradition reaching back to the first Christian centuries can be handed on rather than remembered.

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