St. Mina Coptic Orthodox Church

About St. Mina Coptic Orthodox Church

As early as the year 2002, the idea of building a church in Dubai was initiated by Father Esizoros Ava Bishoy, the Archbishop Anba Abraham and Coptic church leaders, and the request was approved by the UAE government on October 6, 2002. In April 2003, HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, kindly gifted us a land of 25,000 square feet to build the church in the area of Jebel Ali as a token of the UAE love and appreciation of the Egyptian Christians and their services to the UAE. The cornerstone for St. Mina church in Jebel Ali was laid and obtained the license to build in 2005; the building of the church took almost 3 years with great efforts from leading engineers belonging to the church congregation, and the Grace of God was financially and spiritually supporting the building process. The completion certificate of the building was obtained on December 17, 2008. At that time, Anba Abraham started to plan for the ordination of the priests who would serve the congregations in the UAE churches, and the first ordination of married priests was performed in Rabtet El Quds Church, the headquarters of Metropolitan See in Cairo, Egypt, on November 13, 2009 and Father Mina Hanna (Dr. Nader Hanna at that time) was ordained to serve St. Mina Church.