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 sketch and an almost complete lack of sufficient parallels from either Nubia or Sheets the Eastern Mediterranean make a proper examination of this assumption unfeasible.A reassessment of the Face Powder 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.