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When you visit Coptic Cairo, see the Coptic Monalisa!!It is located at the right side of you right after the praying room gate of the church. It is a painting of Virgin Mary with baby Jesus. This is called Monalisa because the eyes of virgin Mary will follow your eyes in all the directions like the real Monalisa painting does. Picture taking is allowed.
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The oldest Coptic church in Egypt is also called hanging church because it was built on the Roman tower. You may see it under its glass floor near the entrance of the church. The architecture of the church imitates the Arch of Noah (the celling part) and they still keep the original stage in the middle of the church. Coptic church is the oldest Christian on earth. This is the only tourist spot in Cairo without the entrance fee!! After the main entrance going to the church, you will see tyle painting wall at the sides. After the stairs going to the main site of coptic church, you will see the picture of cocptic priests on the upper side of the wall. Take a look at Virgin Mary painting at the right back side and take your time to bow your head and pray. You may take pictures inside the church, without the flash please.
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I was told the the Coptic museum had been closed for quite a while but that it had recently reopened it's doors to visitors. So of course, I went to see what they had displayed.
The old wing was the area that was closed for the renovations. it was reopened and you can see on the lower floor displays of stelaes mainly in limestone with Coptic inscriptions. It also includes the main library of the museum and the manuscripts library.
The upper floor includes:
Fresco, Wood, Pottery and Glass sections.
In the new wing, the lower hall (which consists of nine halls) displays in the first and second hall limestone statues representing the transition between paganism and Christianity.
The other seven halls have crowns and limestone stelaes with a few fresco paintings.
It's an odd little museum, and seems to have been organized by someone without a lot of museum experience, but it is an interesting afternoon's adventure in Coptic Cairo. Leave a Comment Phone: 3639742Directions: on Mary George St. in Old Cairo.
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 After church by TheWanderingCamel
When the hustle of the streets of Cairo become too much for you, this is the area to head for. If you're planning to visit the churches be sure to be properly dressed - no shorts or bare arms for either men or women are allowed. Photography may also be forbidden in the churches and in the synagogue - we were allowed to take photos a while back but a very recent visitor to Cairo tells me they were not. Leave a Comment Directions: The metro is the best way to get there. Get off at Mar Girgis (St George) station
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 Picture of the offical sign by ATXtraveler
I would have added a picture other than the sign at the entrance, but out of respect for the Church, there are no pictures allowed inside. Leave a Comment
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 Inside Sitt Barbara (Saint
Barbara) Church by Diana75, 1 more photos
The legend said that Barbara, the daughter of a pagan merchant, converted to Christianity and when she tried to convert her father, he tried to kill her.
The church was rebuilt in the 10th Century, but still preserves its wooden door, a magnificent example of fine Coptic art.
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 Nunnery of St. George entrance
sign by ATXtraveler
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Abu Serga Church is build on a cave in which the Holy Family is believed to have stayed when they came to Egypt.
The Church of St. Sergius is dedicated to Sergius and Bacchus, two soldier-saints martyred during the 4th Century in Syria.
Dating back to the beginning of the 5th Century and the roof is built in Noe's Arc style as a symbol to the fact that in God's house we are saved as the ones saved by the arc.
The church's main attraction is the crypt containing the remains of the original church where tradition says the Holy Family stayed.
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Constructed around the 4th or 5th Century, the church was named "Al-Muaallaqah" (other names "Sitt Mariam" and "Saint Mary") because it was built on top of the south gate of the Fortress of Babylon.
"Muaallaqah" means "hanging".
This is the most renown Coptic Christian church in Cairo and it is said that it was the first built in basilican style probably during the patriarchate of Isaac (690 - 92 B.C.).
Inside the church you can find the "Egyptian Mona Lisa", an icon of the Virgin Mary painted by Amba Ibraham on a column on the right side of the entrance.
Amba Ibraham saw Virgin Mary in his dream saying to him that she will help him to move the mountain in order to obtain the sheik's help for building a church on this place.
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