Half-day Tour in Churches of Cairo: Explore Famous Churches with a Professional Guide

This 5-hour tour will take you to the most famous Churches in the city of Cairo. Explore old Coptic Cairo with its famous Hanging Church, in addition to other renowned churches such as the Church of Santa Barbara, the Church of Saint George and the Church of Saint Serguis. You will be accompanied by a professional guide.

Duration: 5 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Coptic Cairo - Advancing through the alleyways of the old city, you’ll get the chance to visit the Church of Saint Sergius and the Church of Santa Barbara, before continuing on to the Ben Ezra Synagogue and Saint Simon’s Church, which is carved into Mokattam Hills.
What's Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Professional guide
  • Bottled water
  • Transport by air-conditioned minivan
What's Not Included
  • Food and drinks, unless specified
  • Gratuities
  • Insurance
  • The extra charge of Pick up from the hotels and points outside the city
Additional Information
  • Children must be accompanied by an adult
  • Friday due to morning prayers and mass pick up time will be 10.00 am
Location
Coptic Cairo
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Nancy_m
Dec 12, 2024
Great guide, who was very... - Great guide, who was very informative. We were picked up on time. Driver and guide friendly and courteous.
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Powder3
Dec 12, 2024
Great service. Knowledgeable guide. - Very well organised tour. Deluxe tours was very efficient in promptly arranging our guide. Hosni was an excellent guide. Knowledgeable and very pleasant. Highly recommended for Cairo touring.
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Sunshine604694
Nov 27, 2024
Fascinating tour of old Christian churches - This was a fascinating tour of a different side of Cairo. It started with a drive through the narrow, dirty and chaotic streets of “Garbage City,” the only way to reach St. Simon Church. That drive was an experience unto itself. St. Simon is a unique and gorgeous church in a cave beneath a mountain. It was built only about 50 years ago — much more recently than the other churches on the tour — but has an old-world charm of its own. The other churches, also beautiful and well-worth seeing, are clustered together in the Coptic center of Cairo. Our guide was Zizou, a charming, friendly and extremely knowledgeable Egyptologist. This was our third tour with Zizou and his skilled driver, Ehab. The two previous tours covered (1) the pyramids and the new Grand Egyptian Museum and (2) Saqqara, Memphis and Dashur. The breath of Zizou’s knowledge of the history of Ancient Egypt, Islam and Christianity is truly impressive. He brings a high level of enthusiasm and incisiveness to his work. He also encourages questions and frequently offers to take pictures from perfect spots. It was our good luck to have him as our guide.
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Carlton
Nov 17, 2024
Great tour of Christian churches of Old Cairo - Hosni was our tour guide and Anwar our driver were both great! Hosni was very knowledgeable about the Christian churches in Old Cairo and provided us with additional fun facts about our visited sites, such as the Hanging Church and the Cave Church. He also took great pics for us. Highly recommend!
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Kaylabg3951mx
Nov 14, 2024
Fantastic Coptic Cairo Tour and Nile Cruise - Deluxe Travel organised us a bespoke tour based on what we wanted to do which included Coptic Cairo, St Simon Church in Garbage City, Fustat Pottery and a Nile Cruise to end it all off. Our guide, Tarek, was very knowledgeable and kind. I will always use this company for my Cairo tours.
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Davidrm1956xk
Nov 9, 2024
The many sides of Cairo - Hosni our guide and Essam our driver were excellent. Cairo traffic is horrendous but Essam handled it with ease. Hosni enlightened us about many aspects of Cairo and our visit to several lovely old Coptic churches was made all the more interesting by his commentary and insights. The drive through Garbage City was quite a unique experience. No tour of Cairo would be complete without a visit to this area
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Vildbill
Nov 8, 2024
An informative day of Egyptian Coptic churches with a garbage city bonus - Our guide Hosni Zahran did a fine job guiding us to and through the various Coptic churches in Cairo, while Essam Hamdoon expertly drove us through the busy streets. Especially interesting was the “garbage city” area that we went through to get to the church of St Simon the Tanner.
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Stephenli9344ym
Nov 5, 2024
I will go again with him - Great trip with an informative guide, being always helpful and clear. He helped me to find a place to buy what i wanted to buy, no added presure to buy or not to buy.
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Lljjbb
Nov 4, 2024
Great Half Day Tour - Our tour guide Zanaty was fantastic. Very knowledgeable, went at good pace, made extra stops along our way when wanted, and kept us going. Spoke very well and so friendly. Wonderful way to spend a day touring these churches.
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Jan
Nov 2, 2024
Amazing guided tour of the churches of Cairo. - Henry Ayoub was a fantastic guide! He shared so many interesting facts with us and had so much knowledge about everything we saw! And he had a great sense of humor! I learned a ton! It was a great excursion in Cairo.
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