Religious holidays in Egypt include marvelous Coptic architecture. Visit the Monastery of St. Simon and St. Menas at Maryut. Visit old Coptic Cairo to see the 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), as well as the Jewish Synagogue and Coptic Museum, Wadi Natroun . Notable among them is the Baramus Monastery, Church of the Holy Virgin.




















