Old Cairo Misr el-Oadima

Within the area of the Roman citadel are a number of other old Coptic churches. A few houses away from Abu Sarga is the Church of Sitt Barbara, founded in the fifth century and rebuilt in the 10th-11th centuries.

To the north of the Church of St Barbara is the church of Mari Girgis (St George), founded in the seventh century, with a richly decorated nave.

To the north of the Church of St Barbara is the Church of the Virgin, founded in the ninth century and rebuilt in the 18th.

Farther to the northwest of the Mosque of Amr is the picturesque old Coptic Monastery of Abu Seifein.

Northeast of the Coptic Museum is the Mosque of Amr, believed to be the oldest in Cairo; the present rather dilapidated building, however, dates mainly from the 18th century. On this site Amr ibn el-As, Caliph Omar's General, built the first mosque in Fustat in the year 642; it was soon considerably enlarged, but was destroyed during the Crusades.

In the Synagogue (Keniset Eliahu; until the eighth century a Christian church), the largest in Egypt, Elijah is said to have appeared and Moses to have prayed.