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Religious site, Historic site
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touring Cairo (religious sites and more)
... -Azir) had written it. It is believed that the site of the Synagogue was where the box of Baby Moses was found. ". The Ben Ezra Synagogue was originally a Christian church that the Copts had to sell, to the Jews, in 882A.D in order to pay the annual ...
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Cairo and the pyramids in Giza
... -Azir) had written it. It is believed that the site of the Synagogue was where the box of Baby Moses was found. ". The Ben Ezra Synagogue was originally a Christian church that the Copts had to sell, to the Jews, in 882A.D in order to pay the annual ...
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Walk Like an Egyptian
... of a cave where Jesus, Mary, and Joseph stayed when they were in Egypt hiding from Herod. We went from there to the Ben Ezra Synagogue, built near the reeds where baby Moses was found floating in a basket. We then went to the Church of St. ...
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Coptic, Nile, Giza...and some!
... significant Christian sites in the city. After trapsing through St Sergius, St Barbara, Virgin Mary and Hanging Churches, we visited Ben Ezra Synagogue and Amr Ibn Al-As Mosque. Pretty cool place, however I couldn't stop thinking about the Museum, and ...
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Coptic Cairo
... experience, taking acceptance, popularity and freedom of our faith for granted. Before leaving Coptic Cairo, we made time for a brief stop at Ben Ezra synagogue. Young tourist police stood nearby chatting, with assault rifles casually hung in the ...
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Ancient Churches, Mosques, And Synagogues, Oh My!
... interesting church to visit. Around 1:15pm, we moved through the sunny and gorgeous, clear day on to the 9th century Ben Ezra Synagogue, which occupies the shell of a 4th century Christian church. At this location in the 6th century, the prophet ...
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Cairo
... Far less tourists than the Pyramids of Giza. Coptic Cairo Five old Christian churches, the Coptic Museum and the Ben Ezra synagogue (believed to have originally been a Coptic Church) form a walled compound with narrow streets. Compound gates date ...
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Coptic Cairo
... . In rapid succession we saw the Church of the Virgin, the cemeteries, church of St. Barbara and, surprisingly, Ben Ezra Synagogue. Unfortunately I could only photograph in St. George. We bought a litre bottle of water from ...
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Riding the rails
... permited to go in to the crypt but we could see down in a bit. After that we visited the only Synagogue in Egypt, the Ben Ezra Synagogue. It was formerly a christian church but they had to sell it when they could not afford the taxes. ...
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Back again in Cairo
... recent history. And by recent, I mean visiting some of the oldest monotheistic temples still standing. We began at Ben Ezra Synagogue, originally built in the 9th century. Like so many places here, this synagogue has several incredible but dubious ...
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- Coptic Cairo
- Fort of Babylon
- Musafirkhana Palace
- Coptic Museum
- Mosque of Ibn Tulun
- Alabaster Mosque (Mohammad Ali Mosque)
- Military Museum
- Hanging Church (El Muallaqa, Sitt Mariam, St Mary)
- Bab al-Azab
- Souk al Fustat
- Papyrus Institute
- Abu Sir Pyramids
- Ramses Statue
- Perfume Factory
- Ahmed Shawki Museum (Karmat Ibn Hani')
- Gayer-Anderson Museum (Bayt al-Kiritliya)
- Kefre, the second pyramid
- Wadi Degla
- Museum of Islamic Arts
- St. Mercurius Church (Abu Seifien)