Famous churches and monasteries of Cairo in two days

After meeting your guide at the hotel, you will start your day tour by visiting the famous churches in Old Coptic Cairo and the Coptic museum. Start your time with the 1500-year-old Hanging Church, where the nave is suspended from the old Babylon fortress; the Church of St. Barbara, the 4th century Church of Abu Serga (St. Sergius & Bacchus), known as the Cavern church. In this place, Jesus the baby and Mary, the virgin, spent three months escaping from King Herod. Then proceed to the monastery and church of St George. You will also enjoy seeing the oldest Jewish Synagogue in Cairo called Ben Ezra. Leave the area of Coptic Cairo and Move on to the Monastery of St. Simon (Simeon) the Tanner, dramatically situated in the Mokattam Mountain, on the outskirts of Cairo. St. Simon was a 10th-century saint whose faith is said to have moved this mountain. Back to hotel and overnight in Cairo.