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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These churches are not old monuments, but the history and the story behind them make them fascinating. These churches are buit at the foot of Mokattam M ...

Simon the Tanner was a craftsman who lived during the 10 th century, and the cave church that was dedicated ... more on the Monastery of St. Simon in Cairo. Photo: GIANLUIGI GUERCIA/AFP/Getty ...

The cave churches of Cairo offer sanctuary in the midst of squalor. The Pyramids of Giza used to be in the middle of the desert. Eventually Cairo’s urban sprawl pushed right up to the Sphinx.

A marginalized minority of Coptic Christians in a Muslim-majority country, the Zabbaleen were forcibly relocated to the outskirts of Cairo by the ... Seven churches and chapels are hidden within ...

Simon Monastery atop Cairo's Mokkatam hills to add the final touches to his latest sculpture. He had spent more than two decades carving the rugged insides of the seven cave churches and chapels ...

CAIRO — Whistling a tune, Mario nimbly clambered up the scaffolding enveloping part of the rock-hewn St Simon Monastery atop Cairo's Mokkatam hills to add the final touches to his latest sculpture. He ...