Saint Simon The Tanner Monastery

The monastery of St. Simon the Tanner is not very famous, but it is considered one of Cairo's finest monuments, and its name is derived from St. Simon, who lived during the reign of Al-Mu’iz Le Din Allah, the Fatimid caliph. It was also discovered inside Mount Mukattam, which miraculously moved from the God and with the intercession of the Virgin Mary, aided St. Simon the Tanner.

Get the opportunity to walk around this wonderful church with White Bird Travel and explore more about it. This huge church has a huge space for thousands of people and its seats are made of large panels of polished stone, so its interior looks like a huge amphitheater, with many impressive sculptures made by a Portuguese or Italian man who married a Coptic woman.

Moreover, it has three sets of caves and one of these is huge, designed to accommodate about 10,000 people, the second is medium and contains about 2,000 people, and the latter is the smallest among them and contains only about 200 people. It is also believed that this church was under the control of Anba Abram and St. Simon worked in a craft in Babylon known as the Hanging Church, called St. Simon the Tanner and shoe maker.