SAINT MERCURIUS CHURCH

St. Mercurius Church is located in ancient Cairo or this area is also called Coptic Cairo, near Babylon Castle, Explore this amazing church with White Bird Travel and discover many stories about St. Mercurius, There was a myth about an angel who gave a sharp sword to Mercurius to be able to fight the Barbarians, Moreover, during 1300 and 1500 A.D., the church belonged to the headquarters of the Orthodox Coptic Archbishop in Alexandria.

 


Furthermore, St. Mercurius Church has two separate churches, one located above the other, there are also several chapels belonging to many saints, and the entrance to St. Mercurius Church is headed to the hallway. It is isolated from the Nave by a wooden barrier and there are some columns separating that Nave from the southern and northern corridors. So in the southern part there are many murals discovered in the church's upper porch and preserved and the north corridor has a door heading to the courtyard with three baptisms.
 

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