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If you walk in Cairo’s Old Town over the ruins of a Latin fort tower you will achieve the Virgin Mary Church. Or, as the Egyptians say, you achieve El-Muallaqa (the hanging) because it hovers above the former Southwest-door of the Latin fort. The construction was in the 7th century and later on in the 11th century the Coptic church was the patriarch’s domicile for 300 years.
After some extensions and reconstructions the church keeps an dissymmetrical nave and you can find also Islamic elements in the arrangement, but for this the church is until today in a very good repair.
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