Warning: This Post is a Hot Mess

This post is so long overdue it's not even funny. 

Three or four weeks ago, my host dad and his friend took me on a church tour of Cairo. We went to two different areas. In each area, there were several churches. 

I wrote a story version of this trip, but things got complicated. I finally got a chance to get the pictures from my camera to the computer but it took almost an hour to get the pictures loaded onto the blog. 

After several frustrating complications, I decided to just put up the pictures with captions.

Saint Saman Church

(A mountain with six or so churches built from caverns.)

To get here we had to go trough "trash village" or "garbage village". This is wherever garbage collectors live and sort the trash. The picture I uploaded was accidentally deleted.

Most churches had a little book behind and curtain like this. I went back there to see what it was and I was kicked out because "women weren't allowed". 

This church looks like what I'd imagine a hobbit hole to look like. 

Somewhere, there was a fire and the only thing to survive the fire was this picture of the Jesus Christ Superstar. 

This is the doorway to the Hobbit church of Jesus. 

This is a carving on the side of the mountain of a verse about Jesus going to heaven, accompanied by a picture of Jesus going to heaven. 

This is a sculpture/carving of the angel telling Mary and the other chick that Jesus isn't in his tomb. 

Can you guess what this carving is? It's t the Ten Commandments (not the movie)

"I was thirsty and you gave me drink"

[There was a picture of "if your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out" but it disappeared.]

I can't read what it say, but I liked how the artist incorporated chains. 

This is the altar-pulpit area of the biggest church in the Carholic Monastery. 

Egyptians like to brag about how their kaza is the biggest kaza in the world. And this is the biggest church in the Monastery. Not all the pews are pictured. (I'm sorry.) but it really is big. 

Something something something, something something. Something:52

An illustration of the passage about the Holy Spirit coming and they all started talking in different languages. (Aka one of my favorite bible stories). 

"...the son of man comingin the clouds with great power and glory."

In one of the churches there were windows leading out onto the side of the mountain. We went out there and I took this picture and I love it. 

[There was a picture of a column shaped like a cross, but it too disappeared because my blogging skills are a hot mess.]

Jesus and the Samaritan woman. Jesus walks on water. 

The Nativity Scene

The Hanging Church

This is a hanging church. It sits on top of two columns. Like:

Like this, except the columns are the same height, so the church (represented by the bible) would be level. 

In the more modern Coptic churches, they have pictures of different saints. You can light candles (seen here). The Coptic Christians also walk around, kiss there hand and then touch the pictures. This one is the Virgin Mary. 

There was a synagogue in this area of churches, but we weren't allowed to take pictures. It was really pretty though. 

So there once was a guy. He was a martyr. He was captured and tortured with these devices. He would not denounce his faith in Jesus Christ Superstar, so they killed him. 

He is one of the Saints they have a picture of in many of the churches. This is the picture they use of him:

Slay. 

Jesus on the ceiling of St. George's Church(?)

St. George's Church

Back on the 4th and 5th centuries, there was a very large population of Coptics in Egypt. This Coptic museum housed many artifacts from their civilization. Carvings, artwork, tapestries, clothes, pottery (they wrote like receipts and letters on pottery before paper), paper, books, tools, toys, and the oldest known copy of Psalms. 

We weren't allowed to take pictures, but hey, it's for the blog. 

In the churches, there are examples of Coptic art such as:

This was very frustrating to post because things kept getting deleted or not working the way I thought it would. I really didn't want to wait any longer to post this so here it is. 

This was a really fun and interesting trip to go on. I hope you enjoyed the pictures I did manage to put on here.

That's all I have today, thank you for coming. I'll talk to you next time. 

Learn something today. 

Byeeee

Corie. 

P.S. Why is the text centered? I don't like it. Ugh.