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CAIRO & GIZA

Coptic Cairo: The Hanging Church and Egypt’s Oldest Christian History

Coptic Cairo predates Islamic Cairo by centuries — a walled district of churches, a synagogue, and narrow lanes built directly on top of Roman Babylon Fortress, holding some of the oldest continuous Christian history anywhere in the world. What You’ll See The Hanging Church (El Muallaqa), suspended over the gatehouse of the old Roman fortress, […]

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