Other nearby caves have also been built into separate ... Visit Atlas Obscura for more on the Monastery of St. Simon in Cairo. Photo: GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty Images An Egyptian girl runs ...

US evangelical leaders and thousands of Copts honor an Orthodox priest whose mountain complex chiseled the glory of God into Egypt’s “Garbage City.” Over 40,000 people gathered at Cairo’s ...

Photo taken on Aug. 12, 2021 shows the Cave Church on Mokattam Mountain in Cairo, Egypt. Built into the cave on Mokattam Mountain in 1970s, the church can accommodate up to 20,000 people.Photo ...

A marginalized minority of Coptic Christians in a Muslim-majority country, the Zabbaleen were forcibly relocated to the outskirts of Cairo by the ... within a series of caves inside the Monastery ...

The family's last Cairo stop was in today's leafy suburban ... Before leaving, almost everyone bowed at the tiny cave where Jesus and Mary took shelter. I peered into the tiny cave myself, less ...

Inside is a man-made cave about 70 feet deep. Lightbulbs powered by a gas generator thrumming just outside illuminate pockets of work: Here, an excavator carefully brushes sand and debris away from a ...

In recent years, the same caves have served as hideouts for Taliban ... Comparisons with the other find in Egypt are inevitable. The Cairo Genizah was discovered in the late 1800s in Cairo's ...

I was working as a qualified nurse as a WAF when, in 1945, I was posted to Cairo. I was working for the ... From there I was posted to the desert to a caves hospital where we looked after the ...