DEIR ABU MAKAR (HOLY MONASTERY)
Wadi Natroun
Religious buildings
This remakable monastery in Wadi Natroun is one of the oldest in the world, home to thousands ...Read more
ILLIGAY EL-YUSUFIS MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
This mosque is a small-scale replica of Sultan Hassan's madrassa, with a central courtyard ...Read more
MAHMOUD PASHA MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Interesting mosque blending Mamluk and Ottoman styles, worth a visit for its age.Read more
AMIR AL-TINBOGHA AL-MARIDANI MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Mosque featuring a courtyard with rows of arcades supported by reused antique columns and a ...Read more
SHEIKH MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
A remarkable cruciform-shaped mosque housing a vestibule, qibla and minbar preceded by an ...Read more
KHANQAH SHEIKHOU
Cairo
Shrines and pilgrimage sites to visit
An ancient khanqah-madrasa from the Mamluk period, used to welcome pilgrims on their way to ...Read more
SAYEDA ZEINAB MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Restored mosque with a beautifully decorated interior, featuring a facade and minaret in ...Read more
SALAH SANGAR MOSQUE AND MAUSOLEUM
Cairo
Religious buildings
Mosque with a single iwan featuring rooms on the south and west floors, perched with ...Read more
SERGHAMISH MADRASSA MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Splendid, but tiny madrassa with a central courtyard divided into four iwans, offering ...Read more
MEDRESSA IBN TAGHRI
Cairo
Mosque to visit
A mosque with a fine minaret on the corner of a street, offering two fine views of its facades.Read more
AL-AZHAR MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
An ancient Fatimid mosque with a period main entrance door, a prayer room still decorated in ...Read more
EL-HUSSEIN MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
A very late mosque, built on a Fatimid cemetery that completed the Khan el-Khalili to the ...Read more
AMR MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Africa's first mosque is the fourth largest in the world, and is invested with a high symbolic ...Read more
EL-AQMAR MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Superb Fatimid mosque with remarkable Shiite symbols above the main door.Read more
MOSQUE SOLIMAN AGHA EL-SILAHDAR AND SABIL
Cairo
Religious buildings
Mosque in the Turkish architectural style of the period, with its marble panels and wooden ...Read more
EL-HAKIM MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
This El-Hakim mosque, with its huge inner courtyard, is the second Fatimid mosque built after ...Read more
SALEH TALAI MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
The last Persian-inspired Fatimid mosque with a bronze door on display in the Museum of Islamic ...Read more
SULTAN AL-MUAYYAD MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
A mosque with a splendid mihrab, a courtyard transformed into a garden and a minbar embellished ...Read more
EL-FAKAHANI MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
A pretty mosque with two beautifully carved original doors and 12 marble columns.Read more
SULTAN HASAN MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Two remarkable mosques on Salah el-Din Square, including the Sultan Hassan Mosque and the El ...Read more
MOSQUE AND MADRASSA INAL-EL-YOUSSOUFI
Cairo
Religious buildings
Two monuments with two iwans in the inner courtyard and divine invocations written on the door ...Read more
TEMPLE DE LA VALLÉE DE KÉPHREN
Plateau De Guiza
Religious buildings
This Aswan pink granite temple in the Valley of Kephren, with its alabaster floor, is where the ...Read more
NOTRE DAME BASILICA
Avenue al-Ahram, Cairo
Religious buildings
Basilica built to plans by Alexandre Marcel and to the specifications of Baron Empain, who ...Read more
ST. GEORGE'S CONVENT
Cairo
Abbey monastery and convent
Chapel housed in an 11th-century Fatimid palace, accessed through a splendid carved wooden ...Read more
HASSAN KATKHUDA MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
A small Mamluk mosque situated to the north of an impressive succession of religious monuments ...Read more
CHURCH OF THE VIRGIN-MARY OF ZEITOUN
Zeitoun, Cairo
Religious buildings
This church has been a place of pilgrimage for Copts since the apparitions of the Virgin Mary ...Read more
OMAR MAKRAM MOSQUE
Rue Omar Makram, Cairo
Religious buildings
A neo-Arabic-style mosque named after the hero of the 1807 Alexandria expedition, located on ...Read more
SHAAR-HASHAMEIM SYNAGOGUE
21, Rue Adly, Cairo
Religious buildings
This synagogue, built from 1905 to 1907 by architect Edouard Matasek, has an Art Nouveau air.Read more
EL-REFAI MOSQUE
Cairo
Religious buildings
Mosque on the historic site of Sheikh el-Refaï's zawiya, home to numerous tombs, including ...Read more
ST. GEORGE'S MONASTERY
Cairo
Religious buildings
Monastery housing a Roman tower with Coptic museum, St. George's convent church and Greek ...Read more
MOSQUEE AL HUSSEIN
16 Passage No 6 Qesm El Gamalia, Cairo
Mosque to visit
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MOSQUEE AL AZHAR
1, Haret Derb El Atrak Qesm El Darb El Ahmar, Cairo
Mosque to visit
4/5
(1 review)
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EGLISE SAINT GEORGES
QUARTIER COPTE, Cairo
Churches cathedrals basilicas and chapels
4/5
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