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Tourists in a street of Coptic Cairo near the Hanging Church
El Cairo y Giza

El Cairo copto

La fortaleza romana, la Iglesia Colgante y la cripta de la Sagrada Familia.

Fortaleza de Babilonia
romana, reconstruida por Trajano hacia el 100 d. C.
Iglesia Colgante
Al-Muallaqa, siglos III–IV, sobre la puerta de la fortaleza
San Sergio
cripta de la estancia de la Sagrada Familia en Egipto
Ben Ezra
sinagoga, origen de los documentos de la Geniza de El Cairo

El Cairo copto es el barrio cristiano dentro de los muros de la fortaleza romana de Babilonia: la Iglesia Colgante construida sobre la puerta de la fortaleza, la iglesia de San Sergio y San Baco con la cripta donde se dice que se refugió la Sagrada Familia, la sinagoga Ben Ezra y el Museo Copto. La visita dura de una a dos horas y forma parte de nuestros días en El Cairo y de la excursión privada por El Cairo antiguo.

La visita

Babylon was the Roman fort at the head of the Nile delta, and the Copts built their churches inside its walls after the Arab conquest. The Hanging Church takes its name from its nave suspended over the fortress gatehouse; its 110 icons and the marble pulpit on thirteen columns date from the 11th century and later.

The Church of St Sergius and Bacchus stands over a crypt that tradition names as the place where Mary, Joseph and the child Jesus stayed during the flight into Egypt; the Coptic liturgy still marks the visit. The Ben Ezra Synagogue nearby yielded the Geniza, 300,000 medieval documents found in its storeroom in 1896.

The Coptic Museum holds the largest collection of Christian Egyptian art, from Roman-era textiles to the Nag Hammadi gnostic codices. The whole quarter is walkable in an hour and a half and sits on the metro line at Mar Girgis.

Consejos de nuestros guías

  • Shoulders and knees covered; hats off in the churches
  • Sunday mornings the churches hold services; visit after 11:00
  • The quarter is small; combine it with the Citadel and Khan El Khalili

Mejor época: En cualquier estación, a última hora de la mañana o por la tarde.

Preguntas

Yes, daily, free of charge, outside service times. Dress modestly.
30.0055 N, 31.2300 EAbrir en Google Maps