Old Cairo Highlights Private Tour with Lunch
Cairo, Egypt
Trip Type: Day Trips
Duration: 8 hours
Full day tour visiting the old Cairo, which is known as the Cairo Coptic (Christian and Islamic). Highlights include Citadel of Saladin, Alabaster Mosque, Mohamed Ali Pasha Palace, Mosques of Sultan Hassan, Al-Rifai, Churches of Hanging, St Sergio's, St. Barbara; Ben Ezra and Lunch included in the price.
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Full day tour visiting the old Cairo, which is known as the Cairo Coptic (Christian and Islamic). Highlights include Citadel of Saladin, Alabaster Mosque, Mohamed Ali Pasha Palace, Mosques of Sultan Hassan, Al-Rifai, Churches of Hanging, St Sergio's, St. Barbara; Ben Ezra and Lunch included in the price.
Your pickup at 8:00am from your hotel by our guide to start a full day tour with lunch. We started to visit the old neighborhood Coptic (Cairo Christian), All places is a pilgrimage destination not only for Egyptians but for Christians worldwide. An air of piety and devotion pervades the whole district there. There you visit and enter the Church of Abu-Sergah and St. Barbara, the Hanging Church, and the ancient Jewish Ben Ezra synagogue. Lunch during the tour in local restaurant, but not include drinks.
Continue your tour with a visit to The Citadel Of Saladin (it consists of a number of important monuments: The Alabaster Mosque, walls Joeh and Mohamed Ali Pasha Palace ). Then continue your day to visit the Islamic Mosques in Cairo Mosque Amr ibn Al As (Masjid) which was built in 642. Learn about the Announcement of the Muslim leader Amr ibn Elas in the El Fustat then followed by a visit to the largest mosque in Cairo, the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, who is also known as ` Madrasa Sultan Hassan'. Founded by Sultan Hassan as Mosque in 1357, Al-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan is a massive Mamluk era mosque and madrassa located near the Citadel of Cairo. Its construction 756 AH / 1357 CE began with work ending three years later "without even one day of idleness". The mosque was designed to include schools of the four Sunni schools of thought: Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanafi and Hanbali. Continue your day by another big famous mosque: Al-Rifai Mosque. The building is located opposite the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan and if there is time there will be a visit to the Bazar khan El Khalili in one hour as complement at the end of the tour. After this you will be transferred back to your hotel.
Continue your tour with a visit to The Citadel Of Saladin (it consists of a number of important monuments: The Alabaster Mosque, walls Joeh and Mohamed Ali Pasha Palace ). Then continue your day to visit the Islamic Mosques in Cairo Mosque Amr ibn Al As (Masjid) which was built in 642. Learn about the Announcement of the Muslim leader Amr ibn Elas in the El Fustat then followed by a visit to the largest mosque in Cairo, the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, who is also known as ` Madrasa Sultan Hassan'. Founded by Sultan Hassan as Mosque in 1357, Al-Madrasa of Sultan Hassan is a massive Mamluk era mosque and madrassa located near the Citadel of Cairo. Its construction 756 AH / 1357 CE began with work ending three years later "without even one day of idleness". The mosque was designed to include schools of the four Sunni schools of thought: Shafi'i, Maliki, Hanafi and Hanbali. Continue your day by another big famous mosque: Al-Rifai Mosque. The building is located opposite the Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan and if there is time there will be a visit to the Bazar khan El Khalili in one hour as complement at the end of the tour. After this you will be transferred back to your hotel.
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