Everyone knows Paris the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris which is the oldest (still existing). With the "Old Cairo," we are in a small neighborhood best renovated Cairo.
Beginning in the center of Cairo (metro Mubarak, Nasser and Sadat, for example) the simplest is to take the metro to Mar Girgis (Old Cairo, pronounce Guirguis car les "g" sont toujours durs et jamais comme des j en égyptien) pour 1 LE (livre égyptienne) et à peine 1/4 h de voyage et 4 arrêts de Sadat. 1 LE est le prix du ticket pour les étrangers, les Cairotes payant moins chers. Il y a des tranches de tarifs en fonction de la distance. Des vigiles remplacent les parois anti fraude.
Eviter les heures de pointe du matin et du soir. Pour les dames, wagons spéciaux à disposition.
Ce vieux Caire, rénové donc, se trouve face à la sortie du métro, n'est pas ouvert à la circulation, est correctement défendu par la police en arme, et était très calme lors de notre passage. Certains buildings were closed and / or renovation.
We focused on the Coptic Museum (Ah those limits, ah ....) and the decorations on the church El Moallaqah , full of beautiful and interesting details. These two books of religion and culture show Coptic sides ephemeral and permanent sides of human activity. More
old Egyptian religion still practiced (a few centuries before the Arab invasion), it has almost entirely lost his own writing, the transition to writing Arabic had been the case a few centuries ago, except for certain sacred texts.
The proximity between the pictorial representation of the Egyptians dead, then the Egyptian-Roman and that of Orthodox iconography is again examples.
This small district is based on foundations of the Roman period (presence of the base of a tower defense for example).
Before this trip, I knew some branches of European orthodoxy (Greek, Russian, Serbian, etc..) But was not aware that every country in Eastern Africa (Egypt, Ethiopia, etc..) Has its or its own branches. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_% C3% A9glises_orthodoxes . Their status seems a bit complicated here. Well integrated, because they have always been part of the population and have much in common with the majority, they represent a religious minority (estimated figures, 8 million people, less than 10% of the population?) With the difficulties of those who are different.
In a city with so many mosques, there are occasionally a Coptic church and here of course, but also in front of the Zamalek side of downtown, while the newer and more impressive (it must be recognizable).
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