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An amphitheater carved into a cliffside with tiered seating and a large screen. 1
A cave church interior with wooden pews, a staircase, and a large arched doorway. 2
A rocky landscape with a large rock formation, a fenced area, and a building with a dome. 3
A church with two domes, a rocky landscape, and traditional huts. 4
A large, historic building with a prominent dome and a tall bell tower. 5
By Egypt Tours Online

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9.4 out of 10
Exceptional
Free cancellation available
Price is ฿501 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 4h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages

Overview

  • Visit El Mokattam Mountain Cave Church, or the Monastery of St Simon, on a private tour that also explores the magnificent churches of Coptic Cairo. You’ll see some of Cairo’s most important Christian sites, including the Saints Sergius and Bacchus Church, the Church of Saint Barbara, and the Hanging Church, while going beyond sightseeing for a glimpse of ‘rubbish city,’ a fascinating Cairo area that most visitors overlook entirely.

Activity location

  • Coptic Cairo
    • Cairo, Egypt

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Kafr Al Gabal
    • Kafr Al Gabal, Giza Governorate, Egypt

Multiple meeting/redemption points available, see location information for full list

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Only Car With Driver

  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English

Only Car With Driver
Pickup included

Starting time: 9:00
Price details
฿501.19 x 1 Adult฿501.19
Total
Price is ฿501.19

Car +Tour guide Only

  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English

Car +Tour guide Only
Pickup included

Starting time: 9:00
Price details
฿1,670.65 x 1 Adult฿1,670.65
Total
Price is ฿1,670.65

Car +Guide + Lunch

  • Activity duration is 4 hours4h
    4h
  • English

Car +Guide +Lunch
Pickup included

Starting time: 9:00
Price details
฿2,171.84 x 1 Adult฿2,171.84
Total
Price is ฿2,171.84
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What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Inclusions
    All Transfers by Private A/C latest Model Vehicle
  • Inclusions
    Lunch at local restaurants(Local Egyptian Food) ( If Option Selected )
  • Inclusions
    guide on site ( If Option Selected )
  • Inclusions
    Bottle of water
  • Exclusions
    Personal Items
  • Exclusions
    Tipping

Know before you book

    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Specialised infant seats are available
    • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
    • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
    • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Coptic Cairo

  • 1h
As Per Requested time Pick up from the Hotel by Your guide to Start your Half day tour to Old Cairo that Also known as Coptic Cairo which is mean Christian Cairo it has been Recognised as a holy place because some of the locations there has been visited by the Holy Family where the spiritual impact of their presence is most felt still; though their stay was brief, for the Governor of what was then Fustat enraged by the tumbling down of idols at Jesus’ approach sought to kill the Child. But they took shelter from his wrath in a cave above which, in later years, the Church of Abu Serga (St Sergius) was built. This and the whole area of the Fort of Babylon is a destination of pilgrimage not only for the Egyptians but for Christians from around the world. An air of piety and devotion pervades the whole district there.

Church of St. Barbara

  • 30m
Saint Barbara Coptic known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian Lebanese and Greek saint and martyr. Accounts place her in the 3rd century in Heliopolis Phoenicia, present-day Baalbek, Lebanon. There is no reference to her in the authentic early Christian writings nor in the original recension of Saint Jerome's martyrology

Hanging Church (El Muallaqa, Sitt Mariam, St Mary)

  • 30m
The Hanging Church is named for its location above a gatehouse of Babylon Fortress, the Roman fortress in Coptic Cairo (Old Cairo); its nave is suspended over a passage.[2] The church is approached by twenty-nine steps; early travellers to Cairo dubbed it "the Staircase Church".[2] The land surface has risen by some six metres since the Roman period, so the Roman tower is mostly buried below ground, reducing the visual impact of the church's elevated position

Synagogue Ben Ezra

  • 1h
his was the synagogue whose geniza or store room was found in the 19th century to contain a treasure of forgotten, stored-away Hebrew, Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic secular and sacred manuscripts. The collection, known as the Cairo Geniza, was brought to the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England at the instigation of Solomon Schechter. It is now divided between several academic libraries, with the majority being kept at the Cambridge University Library.

St Simon the Tanner Monastery

  • 1h
s the Coptic Orthodox saint associated with the storey of the moving the Mokattam Mountain in Cairo, Egypt, during the rule of the Muslim Fatimid Caliph al-Muizz Lideenillah (953–975) while Abraham the Syrian was the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church

Location

Activity location

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    Coptic Cairo
    • Cairo, Egypt

Meeting/Redemption Point

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    Kafr Al Gabal
    • Kafr Al Gabal, Giza Governorate, Egypt
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    Mosque
    • 4727413, New Cairo 1, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
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    AMA Design
    • Talaat Harb
    • 4272141, Marouf, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
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    Kafr Nassar
    • Kafr Nassar, Giza Governorate, Egypt
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    Emtedad Al Central
    • Emtedad Al Central
    • 6th of October City (2), Giza Governorate, Egypt
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    8G2H2685+5GH
    • Al Giza, Giza Governorate, Egypt
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    Al Haram
    • Al Haram, Giza Governorate, Egypt

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