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St. Peter and St. Paul's Church, Cairo

Abbassia, Egypt · built 1911

St. Peter and St. Paul's Church (al-Kanīsa al-Buṭrusiyya), commonly known as El-Botroseya and also known as the Petrine Church, is a small Coptic church located in the vicinity of Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, the seat of the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, in Cairo's Abbassia district. It was built in 1911 over Egyptian prime minister Boutros Ghali's tomb.

Church data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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