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- The Hanging Church has a unique architecture, with two levels of balconies and an upper level that appears to be suspended from the ceiling.
- Lastly, visit the prominent landmarks of Old Cairo such as the Hanging Church, the Church of St. Barbara, and the Church of Abu Serga.
- The Roman castle or the hanging church comes from 29 steps, so it was called the Church of the Stairs by some travelers in Cairo. •
- ...a stone facade inscribed with Coptic and Arabic marks the entrance to the 9th-century (some say 7th-century) Hanging Church, so named because it is...
- The name “Hanging Church” is actually the name of Saint Virgin Mary’s Coptic Orthodox Church. It is even referred to as the suspended church “Al-Muallaqah”.
- The Hanging Church has 110 icons, the oldest of which dates back to the 8th century, but most of them date to the 18th century.
- Hanging Church. The iconostasis of the central sanctuary is made of ebony ivory wood, and is adorned with the icons of the Virgin Mary and the twelve apostles.
- Unlike many other churches in Egypt, the Hanging Church's suspended design sets it apart, adding an air of mystique to the structure.
- The Hanging Church, otherwise called the Saint Virgin Mary's Coptic Universal Church, is perhaps of Cairo's most huge and generally rich site in our Egypt tours.