Cairo’s Garbage Workers Built Seven Extraordinary Cave Churches

We already have great respect for the Zabbaleen in Garbage City, the minority Coptic Christians who make a living sorting through Cairo’s trash, and then we saw these extraordinary Cave Churches over on Amusing Planet. Historically marginalized and evicted from Giza in 1970, a community of Coptic Christians took up residence at the foot of the Mokattam hills in south east Cairo. Burned by their previous experience, the religious group hesitated to build permanent churches in their settlement, which is now…

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Cairo’s Garbage Workers Built Seven Extraordinary Cave Churches

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