In addition to the Coptic Museum, highlights include the Hanging Church, so-named because it is suspended above a gate of the Babylon Fortress, the Amr Ibn al-As mosque, the first mosque built in ...

Beyond the infrastructure, I was deeply moved by Egypt’s embrace of its rich, layered cultural identity - from the Hanging Church and Amr Ibn al-As Mosque in Old Cairo to the seamless ...

Recommended Tour: To visit the Cave Church, it is recommended you organize a tour. This ‘Cairo: The Cave Church Private Tour’ option offers pick up from your accommodation and will provide you with ...

Next, we moved on to Coptic Cairo where a number of Greek Orthodox churches are found, most notably St. George’s Church and the Hanging Church. Tradition holds that the Holy Family lived in this area ...

The pilgrimage group from Christ Lutheran Church, DuBois, to Egypt are shown at the Cave Church in Cairo. From left: Donna Bush, Tom and Ginny Schott, Linda Lupro, Gary Bogle, John and Amy Miller ...

Near the aforementioned church in Cairo is also The Hanging Church, one of Egypt’s oldest churches, believed to have been built in 690 AD. This church has over a hundred icons. Among these are the ...

The journey of Joseph, Mary and infant Jesus across Egypt is believed to have started through northern Sinai until reaching Farama. Churches and monasteries were built on the landmarks where legend ...

Ahmed explains that the Zabbaleen descended from farmers who migrated to Cairo from Northern Egypt in the 1940s. They settled in makeshift camps on the city’s outskirts and began collecting ...

An Egyptian man was sentenced Sunday to death by hanging for a deadly attack on a Cairo church in 2017 claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group, a judicial source said.

Egypt’s first Islamic capital of Fustat is to be converted into an environmental, cultural, and touristic destination as part of the development of Historic Cairo, reports Nevine El-Aref ...