These are the places in Egypt that this guide connects with a Bible passage. Each card gives the passage, the start of the site’s history and a link to its full profile, map location and sources.
CHURCH BUILDING
Saint Mary’s at Sakha preserves an older church setting within a building repeatedly renewed. The pilgrimage account records rebuilding authorised by Muhammad Ali and a modern restoration completed in May 2014, continuing the site’s place in Coptic devotional life.
CHURCH BUILDING
The present church was built in 1841 over an older church affected by Nile flooding, according to the Holy Family pilgrimage account. Dedicated to the Virgin Mary and Saint Abanoub, it preserves Samanoud’s longstanding Christian pilgrimage traditions.
CHURCH BUILDING
Abu Serga, the Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, stands in the heart of the remains of the Roman fortress of Babylon in Old Cairo. It is dedicated to two soldier martyrs venerated in Syria.
MONASTERY
Saint Catherine's Monastery stands at the foot of Mount Sinai. It was built between 548 and 565 on the orders of the emperor Justinian, and it is often described as the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery in the world.
