What is "kurna"

Kurna (also Gourna, Gurna, Qurna, Qurnah or Qurneh) are various spelling for a group of three closely related villages (New Qurna, Qurna and Sheikh ‘Adb el-Qurna) located on the West Bank of the River Nile opposite the modern city of Luxor in Egypt near the Theban Hills.

New Qurna was designed and built in the late 1940s and early 1950s by Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy to house people living in Qurna which is now uninhabited. New Qurna was added to the 2010 World Monuments Watch List of Most Endangered Sites to bring attention to the site's importance to modern town planning and vernacular architecture due to the loss of much of the original form of the village since it was built.

Kurna may refer to:

• Kurna, name of three villages on the West Bank of the River Nile near Luxor in Egypt
• Kurna, Harju County, village in Rae Parish, Harju County, Estonia
• Kurna, Lääne-Viru County, village in Viru-Nigula Parish, Lääne-Viru County, Estonia
• Kourna, a village and a lake in Crete, Greece
• Qurnah, village in Iraq at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in modern-day Iraq
• West Qurna Field, one of Iraq's largest oil fields