Fortress of Babylon, Old Cairo.

It was built on top of the gate of the Roman fortification called Babylon, located to the south of the Coptic Museum in Cairo.

It is considered the oldest church in Egypt.

It is said that the church was built on the ruins of a place where the Holy Family took shelter “Mrs Mary, the Virgin, the Child Jesus, our master Jesus, peace be upon him, and Saint Joseph Al-Najjar during the three-year holy journey in Egypt.

After crossing the Holy Family Sinai and arriving in Ferma, the city between Al-Arish and Port Said, is now headed to the second station, “Tel Basta” near Zagazig, then “Belbeis.” The family crossed the sea to Samanoud, then Burullus, and headed to Sakha in Kafr El-Sheikh Governorate. Then they headed west towards “Wadi al-Natrun,” which became the centre of a large monastic congregation. The family reached the “Al-Mataria” area in Cairo, where it had a blessed spring of water and the Virgin Mary washed the clothes of our master Jesus, peace be upon him in this spot, then poured water on the ground and grew a balsam tree, and used balsam extract to prepare the “holy chrism” oil The Christ and the Virgin Mary then went to ancient Egypt, where we lived in the cave, which is currently under the Church of Abu Sarraj, on the ruins of the Babylon Fortress, then to Maadi,

A boat ride to the south, specifically Bahasa, in the current Beni Suef Center, and from there, it headed to Minya Governorate. They crossed the Nile River to the east bank, where the mountain of the palm from which the palm of Christ was imprinted, then to the Ashmonites in the city of Mallawi.

The Holy Family went from Minya to Assiut, where I stayed for more than 6 months, the longest period they spent anywhere in Egypt. She visited the city of “Phyllis,” which is currently the city of Dayrut al-Sharif, and then went to Qusiya. Then to Meera and then to a mountain, “Qasqam,” and in the same place where the Virgin Mary’s Monastery is known as “Muharraq,” and the Holy Family returned to Palestine from there again.

After the death of the tyrant king Herod.