WBA in Egypt: Cairo Part II

Dual baptism at a Greek Orthodox church in Coptic Cairo.

Greek Orthodox cemetary in Coptic Cairo.
Given my lifetime of exposure to Western-based Christianity, it was strange to see Christian symbols inscribed with Arabic.

Padlocked graves.

Burglary?

Fiteer at the Egyptian Pancake House.

The dining party.

Al-Azhar Mosque in Islamic Cairo-- founded in 970AD.

There's a university affiliated with it that claims to be the world's oldest existing educational institution (est. in AD 988).

We happened to be in Egypt during Eid al-Adha-- Feast of the Sacrifice-- which commemorates Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael. During Eid, cows and rams are slaughtered to reenact Ibrahim's sacrifice.

Here are some remains in a random wall crevice on the street.

Men only.

Khan al-Khalili.
Expansive, chaotic street bazaar.

More evidence of the celebration of Eid.

The owner of the butchery flipped this massive head around to better faciliate our indiscrete gawking.

Stewing cows' hooves.

Some friends we made...

The story that accompanies this picture begins with us buying saffron from this kid's spice cart, ends with him accompanying us home in a taxi, and includes a dinner of kushari, the watching of a football game in a cafe, the dodging of many difficult to discern puddles of sheep's blood in the pockmarked streets, and a trip to his home in the slums of Cairo where an old woman screamed at us in Arabic.