Ben Ezra Synagogue Cairo

After a well needed sleep, and some breakfast it was time to meet my guide and start exploring Cairo. My guides name was Mamdou and the guide who had greeted me the day before told me that at the office they refer to him "The walking encyclopedia", and they weren't wrong. He explained everything in great detail throughout the day and it was great …

... -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 ...

... -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 ...

... 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. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... .  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 ...

... 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.  ...

... century BC and rebuilt in the 12th century.  Also in this vicinity that we visited was the Ben Ezra Synagogue, it’s the oldest known synagogue in Egypt (built 695 BC rebuilt 1121 AD).  These are in the Jewish and Coptic Christian quarter, ...