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DEIR ABU MAKAR (HOLY MONASTERY)
Wadi Natroun
Religious buildings
The most remarkable monastery in Wadi Natroun is home to 120 monks. Founded ...Read more
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ILLIGAY EL-YUSUFIS MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
This Mamluk mosque, built in the 14th century, is a small replica of the ...Read more
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MAHMOUD PASHA MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Mosque built in 1567 by Mahmoud Pacha, the bloodthirsty governor of Cairo, ...Read more
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EL MUSTAHFIZAN MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
It is probably also in two other names that this mosque, restored in 1652 ...Read more
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AMIR AL-TINBOGHA AL-MARIDANI MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
The Al Tinbogha el-Maridani mosque, built in 1324, is much more interesting ...Read more
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SHEIKH MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
The mosque was built between 1349 and 1355 by Prince Sheikhou, who obtained ...Read more
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KHANQAH SHEIKHOU
Cairo
Shrines and pilgrimage sites to visit
Six years after building his mosque, Prince Sheikhou decided to erect a ...Read more
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SAYEDA ZEINAB MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
The city of Cairo is under the votive protection of Sayeda Zeinab, ...Read more
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SALAH SANGAR MOSQUE AND MAUSOLEUM
Cairo
Religious buildings
The complex was built in 1304 by Prince el-Din Sangar el-Gaouli and his ...Read more
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SERGHAMISH MADRASSA MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
This splendid but tiny madrassa was built in 1356 by Prince Seif el-Din ...Read more
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MEDRESSA IBN TAGHRI
Cairo
Mosque to visit
Mamluk of Sultan Farag ibn Barquq and secretary of Gaqmaq, it was Prince ...Read more
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AL-AZHAR MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
It is the oldest of the Fatimid mosques in the city, built in 971 by ...Read more
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EL-HUSSEIN MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
This mosque is one of the later ones. It was built by the Khedive Ismail in ...Read more
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AMR MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
In the eyes of Islam, the Amr mosque is invested with high symbolic value. ...Read more
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EL-AQMAR MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
This superb Fatimid-period mosque was completed in 1125, where a Coptic ...Read more
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MOSQUE SOLIMAN AGHA EL-SILAHDAR AND SABIL
Cairo
Religious buildings
A rare example of a monument dating from the end of the reign of Muhammad ...Read more
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EL-HAKIM MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Built between 990 and 1013 by el-Aziz and his son el-Hakim. It is the ...Read more
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SALEH TALAI MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
It was in 1160 that the vizier Saleh Talai undertook to build a ...Read more
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SULTAN AL-MUAYYAD MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
This mosque was erected between 1415 and 1420 by Sultan el-Mouayyed. It ...Read more
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EL-FAKAHANI MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Taking Muezz el-Din Allah Street, one can see on its left a beautiful ...Read more
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SULTAN HASAN MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
In Salah el-Din Square, these two mosques face each other and are ...Read more
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MOSQUE AND MADRASSA INAL-EL-YOUSSOUFI
Cairo
Religious buildings
Both monuments were erected between 1392 and 1393. It has only two iwans in ...Read more
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NOTRE DAME BASILICA
Cairo
Religious buildings
The basilica was built from 1911 to 1913 on the plans of Alexandre Marcel, ...Read more
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ST. GEORGE'S CONVENT
Cairo
Abbey monastery and convent
The chapel is no longer visited, which was set up in a th century fatimide ...Read more
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CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN
Cairo
Religious buildings
Although it was also built in the th century, this church, which suffered ...Read more
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HASSAN KATKHUDA MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
This small mameluke mosque built in 1752 is the most northerly building of ...Read more
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AMIR AKHUR MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
A small mosque built in 1503 by the great equerry during the reign of ...Read more
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MAHMOUD EL-KURDI MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
At the exit of this covered market, on the left, the mosque Mahmoud ...Read more
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CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN-MARY OF ZEITOUN
Cairo
Religious buildings
A sycamore tree, called the "tree of the Virgin", grows where Christ is ...Read more
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OMAR MAKRAM MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Located in Tahrir Square, the building by Mario Rossi, also architect of ...Read more
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SHAAR-HASHAMEIM SYNAGOGUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
The Rue Adly synagogue was built between 1905 and 1907 by architect Edouard ...Read more
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EL-REFAI MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Of the two mosques in the centre of Salah el-Din Square, this is not the ...Read more
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ST. GEORGE'S MONASTERY
Cairo
Religious buildings
It is, in fact, inside the Roman tower that adjoins the Coptic museum, the ...Read more
EGLISE SAINT GEORGES
Cairo
Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels
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