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  2. Mokattam - Wikipedia

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    Mokattam (upper area), above the City of the Dead—Cairo necropolis, in a 1904 aerial view by Eduard Spelterini from a hot air balloon. The area on election day, 2011. The Mokattam (Egyptian Arabic: المقطم [elmoˈʔɑtˤ.tˤɑm], also spelled Muqattam), also known as the Mukattam Mountain or Hills, is the name of an Eastern Desert plateau as well as the district built over it in the ...

  3. Simon the Tanner - Wikipedia

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    'Simon the Shoemaker; Craftsman'; Arabic: سمعان الدباغ, romanized: Sama'an al-Dabagh), is the Coptic Orthodox saint associated with the story of the moving the Mokattam Mountain in Cairo, Egypt, during the rule of the Muslim Fatimid Caliph al-Muizz Lideenillah (953–975) while Abraham the Syrian was the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox ...

  4. List of Coptic saints - Wikipedia

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    Simeon, of Menouf, martyr during the Islamic occupation of Egypt; Simon, the apostle and martyr; Simon, the stylite; Simon, the tanner, he moved the Mokattam mountain; Sina, the soldier, martyr; Sinouti el-Bahnasa, martyr; Sisoes the Great, one of the desert fathers; Sophia of Egypt, martyr; Sousenyos, martyr; Stephanos, the anchorite of the ...

  5. Joachim of Alexandria - Wikipedia

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    Miracle of Moving a mountain called "Dour Dag" which may be Mokattam Mountain The Greek Orthodox Christian tradition [1] The Coptic Church has the tradition that the mountain was moved by a Simon the Tanner [2]

  6. List of Coptic monasteries - Wikipedia

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    St. Samaan the Tanner Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Zabbaleen, Mokattam) St. Theodore the Oriental Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Haret Elroum) Virgin Mary Coptic Orthodox Convent - (Haret Zuweila) St. George Coptic Orthodox Convent - (Haret Zuweila) St. Barsoum El-Erian Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Monshat Naser, Helwan)

  7. Cairo Citadel - Wikipedia

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    Egyptian National Military Museum. The official museum of the Egyptian Army. The museum was established in 1937 at the old building of the Egyptian Ministry of War in downtown Cairo. It was later moved to a temporary location in the Garden City district of Cairo. In November 1949 the museum was moved to the Harem Palace at the Cairo citadel.

  8. al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah - Wikipedia

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    The relationship between al-Mu'izz and the Copts of Egypt has been the subject of a number of legends written later by Coptic Christians. One such legend involves al-Mu'izz challenging Pope Abraham of Alexandria to move the Mokattam mountain in Cairo, recalling a verse in the Gospel of Matthew which says:

  9. Zabbaleen - Wikipedia

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    It is located east of Cairo, situated at the foot of Mokattam mountain. Mokattam was created as a result of a series of evictions from the Imbaba area located in the Giza governorate, most notably when the Zabbaleen were given a four-day eviction notice from the governor of Giza in 1970. [20] [28]