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Cairo skyline featuring numerous minarets.. Cairo holds one of the greatest concentrations of historical monuments of Islamic architecture in the world, and includes mosques and Islamic religious complexes from diverse historical periods.
Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral (Arabic: كاتدرائية القديس مرقس القبطية الأرثوذكسية) is a Coptic church located in the Abbassia District in Cairo, Egypt.
The Hanging Church is one of Cairo's most famous Coptic Orthodox Churches. Coptic Cairo is a part of Old Cairo which encompasses the Babylon Fortress, the Coptic Museum, the Hanging Church, the Greek Church of St. George and many other Coptic churches and historical sites.
The Church of St. George (Greek: Εκκλησία Αγίου Γεωργίου; Arabic: كنيسة القديس جورج) is a Greek Orthodox church within the Babylon Fortress in Coptic Cairo.
[3] [4] The church hosts a variety of congregations – with Arabic and English congregations being the largest ones, although other communities also use the premises for worship. The church is constructed in concrete and was designed in the shape of a cross at ground level and a crown at the top.
In January 2017, following twin terrorist attacks that killed at least 27 Coptic Egyptians at St. Peter and St. Paul's Church in Cairo in December 2016, the President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi commissioned the construction of the country's largest mosque and church in the new administrative capital to become symbols of coexistence and national unity. [7]
It has an English-speaking international congregation, an Egyptian congregation and five refugee congregations. Its church building was completed in 1908. It is located at 38 26 July St. between Ramses and Galaa streets, just above the Nasser metro stop in downtown Cairo. English worship services are held at 10 am on Fridays.
The al-Hussein Mosque [1] [2] or al-Husayn Mosque, [3] [4] also known as the Mosque of al-Imam al-Husayn [4] (Arabic: مسجد الإمام ٱلحُسين) and the Mosque of Sayyidna al-Husayn, [5] [6] is a mosque and mausoleum of Husayn ibn Ali, originally built in 1154, and then later reconstructed in 1874. [7]