Hanging Church
Coptic basilica suspended over two Roman fortress gate towers, reached by twenty-nine ancient steps.
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This guide to the Hanging Church in Cairo starts with a theological dare: a Jewish scholar, humiliated in debate before a Fatimid caliph, throws Jesus's own words about faith and mountains back at the church's leader, Pope Abraham. It follows Abraham's three days of prayer inside this church suspended over Roman gate towers, and the search the Virgin Mary sends him on for a one-eyed tanner named Simon. Climb the twenty-nine steps to the nave where the story is said to have begun.
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