El Muallaqa ( The Hanging Church ) – Cairo
- The hanging church is
devoted to the holy virgin mary and was built around 300 a.d. The name is derived
from its location atop the
southwestern gate of the fortress of babylon in old or coptic ,cairo with its
nave suspended above the passage. The church got
its present shape in 1775 . The church can be reached by narrow flight of
twenty nine steps . Beyond the covered
entrance there is an open court with a fountain . The main body of the current
church features a central nave and two
narrow aisles separated by a row of three old white marble columns spanned by
white arches .
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