dayr ghubriyal. In the notice concerning Anba Yuna (perhaps Jonas) for 2 Tubah, the Sahidic recension of the synaxarion of the Copts mentions the Dayr Ghubriyal as one of the residences of the saint. It adds that the monastery was in the desert. According to the context, one must suppose that this desert was near the town of Armant, of which the saint was a native. Unfortunately no written document and no excavation allow us to identify the site with any probability.
S. Timm (1984, no. 41/2, p. 717) remarks that the name of Gabriel is no doubt that of a superior or founder, for if the monastery were named after the Archangel Gabriel it would be called Dayr al-Malak Ghubriyal.