What was the style of churches built in Egypt afterwards?
Dr. Aziz Surial Atiya says that the Copts took pride in their Pharaonic culture. Thus, in spite of the fact that invaders — whether Greeks, Romans, Persians or Byzantines — left their marks on the Egyptian culture, it would be a grave error to assume that Egyptian art was established by any of these at any time. Modern architects have recently started to question the well-established idea that our architecture was only another branch or another form of the Basilica of Byzantine architecture, or that it is a mixture of the two. To that effect, Hamilton affirms as an example that “Egyptian churches could be categorized as a distinct identity, as ‘Coptic architecture.’ Their character was dictated by its liturgical and ecclesiastical traditions, and its structure bears the mark of its nationalism.”