2024
SAINT SIMEON MONASTERY (DEIR AMBA SAMAAN)
Religious buildings
4.5/5
• 2 reviews
Where the devil is Simeon? We don't know, except that he gave his name to ...Read more
Aswan
2024
HATSHEPSUT TEMPLE
Religious buildings • €
4/5
• 4 reviews
Even more than its architecture, the site's location at the foot of a ...Read more
Gourna - Thèbes Ouest
2024
MONT SAINTE-CATHERINE (2,637 M)
Shrines and pilgrimage sites to visit
4/5
• 2 reviews
At 2,637 metres, Mount Sainte-Catherine (djebel Katherin) is the highest ...Read more
Sainte-Catherine
2024
KHNUM TEMPLE
Religious buildings
3/5
• 1 review
The temple is dedicated to the god Khnum, represented with a ram's head, ...Read more
Esna
2024
BEN IZRA SYNAGOGUE
Synagogue to visit
3/5
• 1 review
This ancient synagogue with its Christian architecture, recently restored, ...Read more
2024
SAINT BARBARA'S CHURCH
Religious buildings
3/5
• 1 review
Coptic church with relics of Saint Barbara and a metal gate giving access ...Read more
2024
ST. GEORGE'S CHURCH
Religious buildings
3/5
• 1 review
A very old church with a brightly-colored flamboyant dome and a wedding ...Read more
2024
ORACLE TEMPLES
Religious buildings
3/5
• 1 review
Temples surrounded by the remains of a village with cracked walls and ...Read more
Siwa
2024
MANDOLIN TEMPLE
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It was Augustus who erected this temple, originally located 40 km north of ...Read more
New Kalabcha
2024
TEMPLE OF HIBIS
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A well-preserved temple of respectable dimensions, largely restored today ...Read more
El-Kharga
2024
ENTIRE INAL SULTAN
Religious buildings
Today, all that remains of this complex built by Sultan Inal is the mosque, ...Read more
Cairo
2024
SET OF QURQUMAS EMIR KEBIR
Religious buildings
The finest Mamluk ensemble, comprising a palace, mausoleum, mosque, sabil, ...Read more
2024
Deir al-Surian (MONASTERY OF THE SYRIANS)
Religious buildings
A pretty monastery surrounded by an inelegant modern enclosure, with moving ...Read more
Wadi Natroun
2024
MADRASAH AND MOSQUE OF SULTAN QATBAY
Religious buildings
Qatbay Madrasa and mosque, passing a horse trough before reaching the ...Read more
2024
SULTAN ACHRAF BARSBAY'S KHANQA
Mosque to visit
Khanqah with period minaret, still dedicated to worship today, known for ...Read more
Cairo
2024
DEIR BARAMOS (MONASTERY OF THE ROMANS)
Religious buildings
Coptic Orthodox monastery in the Nitrie desert, with a convent retaining ...Read more
Wadi Natroun
2024
DEIR ANBA BICHOÏ
Abbey monastery and convent
An important, restored ancient Coptic Orthodox monastery housing the tomb ...Read more
Wadi Natroun
2024
DEIR ABU MAKAR (HOLY MONASTERY)
Religious buildings
This remakable monastery in Wadi Natroun is one of the oldest in the world, ...Read more
Wadi Natroun
2024
CHAPELS OF AINEL-MUFTELLAH
Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels
Four interesting and rare chapels dedicated to the god Bès, featuring ...Read more
Bahareyya
2024
ILLIGAY EL-YUSUFIS MOSQUE
Religious buildings
This mosque is a small-scale replica of Sultan Hassan's madrassa, with a ...Read more
Cairo
2024
MAHMOUD PASHA MOSQUE
Religious buildings
Interesting mosque blending Mamluk and Ottoman styles, worth a visit for ...Read more
Cairo
2024
EL MUSTAHFIZAN MOSQUE
Religious buildings
It is probably also in two other names that this mosque, restored in 1652 ...Read more
Cairo
2024
AMIR AL-TINBOGHA AL-MARIDANI MOSQUE
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Mosque featuring a courtyard with rows of arcades supported by reused ...Read more
Cairo
2024
SHEIKH MOSQUE
Religious buildings
A remarkable cruciform-shaped mosque housing a vestibule, qibla and minbar ...Read more
Cairo
2024
KHANQAH SHEIKHOU
Shrines and pilgrimage sites to visit
An ancient khanqah-madrasa from the Mamluk period, used to welcome pilgrims ...Read more
Cairo
2024
SAYEDA ZEINAB MOSQUE
Religious buildings
Restored mosque with a beautifully decorated interior, featuring a facade ...Read more
Cairo
2024
SALAH SANGAR MOSQUE AND MAUSOLEUM
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Mosque with a single iwan featuring rooms on the south and west floors, ...Read more
Cairo
2024
SERGHAMISH MADRASSA MOSQUE
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Splendid, but tiny madrassa with a central courtyard divided into four ...Read more
2024
MEDRESSA IBN TAGHRI
Mosque to visit
A mosque with a fine minaret on the corner of a street, offering two fine ...Read more
Cairo
2024
AL-AZHAR MOSQUE
Religious buildings
An ancient Fatimid mosque with a period main entrance door, a prayer room ...Read more
2024
EL-HUSSEIN MOSQUE
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A very late mosque, built on a Fatimid cemetery that completed the Khan ...Read more
2024
AMR MOSQUE
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Africa's first mosque is the fourth largest in the world, and is invested ...Read more
2024
EL-AQMAR MOSQUE
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Superb Fatimid mosque with remarkable Shiite symbols above the main door.Read more
2024
MOSQUE SOLIMAN AGHA EL-SILAHDAR AND SABIL
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Mosque in the Turkish architectural style of the period, with its marble ...Read more
2024
EL-HAKIM MOSQUE
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This El-Hakim mosque, with its huge inner courtyard, is the second Fatimid ...Read more
2024
SALEH TALAI MOSQUE
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The last Persian-inspired Fatimid mosque with a bronze door on display in ...Read more
2024
SULTAN AL-MUAYYAD MOSQUE
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A mosque with a splendid mihrab, a courtyard transformed into a garden and ...Read more
2024
EL-FAKAHANI MOSQUE
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A pretty mosque with two beautifully carved original doors and 12 marble ...Read more
2024
SULTAN HASAN MOSQUE
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Two remarkable mosques on Salah el-Din Square, including the Sultan Hassan ...Read more
2024
SAINT-ANTOINE MONASTERY
Religious buildings
Today, the monastery is home to around twenty religious and Coptic Orthodox ...Read more
Zaafarana
2024
ST. PAUL'S MONASTERY
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A monastery with impressive defensive architecture, designed to protect it ...Read more
Zaafarana
2024
MOSQUE AND MADRASSA INAL-EL-YOUSSOUFI
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Two monuments with two iwans in the inner courtyard and divine invocations ...Read more
Cairo
2024
FARAN MOSQUE
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Mosque in the old town featuring typical southern Egyptian architecture ...Read more
El Quseir
2024
ABU EL-ABBAS EL-MORSI MOSQUE
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Mosque dominating the esplanade, with five domes, two white minarets and ...Read more
2024
ST. MENAS MONASTERY
Religious buildings
Monastery with an interesting complex of basilica ruins, martyrium and ...Read more
Borg Al Arab
2024
AGHA KHAN MAUSOLEUM
Religious buildings
Solitary and majestic, the mausoleum of Agha Khan III, buried in 1959 (2 ...Read more
Aswan
2024
NABI DANIEL MOSQUE
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Nabi Daniel Mosque, home to the tombs of Egyptian royalty such as Saïd ...Read more
2024
ARMON TEMPLES
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Temple welcoming pilgrims from afar to witness the oracular procedures ...Read more
Siwa
2024
NOTRE DAME BASILICA
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Basilica built to plans by Alexandre Marcel and to the specifications of ...Read more
2024
ELIYAHU HANAVI SYNAGOGUE
Religious buildings
Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue with bay windows and three naves supported by ...Read more