Phnoum

{{Short description|4th-century Egyptian Christian monastery}}

{{Infobox religious building

| name=Phnoum

| location= near Latopolis, Upper Egypt

| geo =

| architecture_type= Monastery

| founded_by = Pachomius the Great

| date_demolished =

| groundbreaking= 4th century A.D.

| year_completed= 4th century A.D.

}}

Phnoum was a cenobitic monastery established by Pachomius the Great during the 4th century A.D.{{cite book |last=Dunn |first=Marilyn |title=The emergence of monasticism: from the Desert Fathers to the early Middle Ages |publisher=Blackwell Publishers |publication-place=Oxford |date=2000 |isbn=0-631-13463-8}} Located near Latopolis in Upper Egypt, it was the southernmost of the nine Pachomian monasteries.{{cite book |last=Brooks Hedstrom |first=Darlene L. |title=The Monastic Landscape of Late Antique Egypt: An Archaeological Reconstruction |publisher=Cambridge University Press |date=2017-11-23 |isbn=978-1-316-67665-3 |doi=10.1017/9781316676653.007}}{{Cite book |last=Harmless |first=William |title=Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-19-516222-6 |location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/0195162234}}

According to the Bohairic Life of Pachomius (58),{{cite book | last=Veilleux | first=Armand | title=Pachomian Koinonia: The life of Saint Pachomius and his disciples (volume 1) | publisher=Cistercian Publications | publication-place=Kalamazoo, Mich | date=1980 | series=Cistercian Studies Series | volume=45 | isbn=0-87907-845-6}}{{rp|78}} the construction of the monastery created tensions between the local Egyptian pagans and the Christian monks.{{cite journal | first=Christian | last=Barthel | title=Monastic Authority on Trial: The Synod of Latopolis | journal=Konzilien und kanonisches Recht in Spätantike und frühem Mittelalter | publisher=Walter de Gruyter | publication-place=Berlin | date=2020 | isbn=978-3-11-068437-7 | pages=25-39}}