A makeshift drawing from the Cathedral in Faras may be a depiction of the ground plan of a church.Nevertheless, the naive appearance of the beer button down shirts for men sketch and an almost complete lack of sufficient parallels from either Nubia or the Eastern Mediterranean make a proper examination of this assumption unfeasible.A abc material reassessment of the architectural drawing from the cathedral, however, draws a wider perspective for a discussion of originality in Nubian architecture.
The following paper presents the rather modest evidence available for a study of the nature of Nubian architecture from the point of view of its builders.