Cairo Sights

Convent of St George

#70 of 408 things to do in Cairo

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The Convent of St George is closed to visitors, but you can step down into the main hall and the chapel. Inside the latter is a beautiful wooden door, almost 8m high, behind which a small room is still occasionally used for the chain-wrapping ritual that symbolises the persecution of St George during the Roman occupation. Occasionally, visitors wishing to be blessed are wrapped in chains by the resident nuns, who intone the requisite prayers.

Usually, though, the nuns will merely offer to show you a chain that they claim was used to bind early martyrs.

 

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