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Monuments and Sights to See In Egypt

Please note that there are other minor monuments listed within individual city pages found on our Destinations section. Also, most of the monuments listed below, are also listed under sightseeing on the destination pages but by order of location.

Historic Arabic Era

Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi, Mosque of - Alexandria
Aga Khan Mausoleum - Aswan

Amr Ibn El-Aas, Mosque of - Cairo

El-Aqmar Mosque (Gray Mosque) - Cairo
Aqsunqur or Blue Mosque - Cairo
As-Salih Talai Mosque - Cairo
Attarine Mosque -Alexandria
Aytmishi Mosque - Cairo
al-Azab, Bab - Cairo
Al-Azhar Mosque - Cairo

Sultan Barquq Complex - Cairo
Baybars El-Jashankir Khanqa - Cairo

Citadel - Cairo

El-Futuh (Gate of Conquest), Bab - Cairo

El-Gawhara el-Lala Mosque - Cairo
El-Ghuri Mausoleum - Cairo
El-Ghuri Mosque - Cairo
El-Ghuri Wakala - Cairo

El-Hakim Mosque
Hanging Mosque - Fayoum

Harem Palace - Cairo
Sultan Hassan Mosque & Madrasa - Cairo
Hassan Sadaqa Mausoleum
- Cairo
El-Hussein Mosque - Cairo

Ibn Tulun Mosque - Cairo
El-Ishaqi Mosque - Cairo

Kamilya Medersa - Cairo
Katkhuda, Sabil-Kottb of - Cairo
Khan el-Khalili - Cairo
Kom el-Dekka - Alexandria
Kwawand Asla-Bey, Mosque of - Fayoum

Mohammad Ali (Alabaster) Mosque - Cairo
Mostafa Kamel Graveyard - Alexandria
El-Mu'ayyad Mosque (Red Mosque) - Cairo
Muntazah Complex - Alexandria
Musafirkhana Palace - Cairo

Al-Nasir Muhammad Madrasa/Mausoleum - Cairo
An-Nasir Mohammed Mosque - Cairo
An-Nasr (Victory Gate), Bab - Cairo

Qaitbay Medersa - Cairo
Qaitbay Wakala - Cairo
Qaitbey, Fort of (The Citadel of Qaitbey) -Alexandria
Sultan Qala'un, Complex of - Cairo

Qanibey Emir Akhur Medersa
- Cairo
Al-Qasr Village Dakhla

Refa'i Mosque - Cairo

Sangar Salar Mosque and Mausoleum - Cairo
Sarghatmish Medersa - Cairo
Sayyida Zeinab Mosque - Cairo
Shatby Tomb - Alexandria
Sheikhu Mosque - Cairo
Sinai, Mount - Sinai
Suleyman Aga El-Silahdar Mosque - Cairo
Suleyman Pasha Mosque - Cairo

Taghri Bardi Medersa - Cairo
Terbana Mosque - Alexandria

Zuwayla, Bab - Cairo

Christian Churches and Monuments

Deir Abu Hennes - Mallawi
Deir Abu Magar (Monastery of St. Macarius) - Wadi Natrun
Abu-Menas Monastery - Karm
Abu Menas
Abu Serga (St. Sergius), Church of - Cairo
Deir el-Abyad (The White Monastery) - Sohag
Deir Amba Bishoi (The Red Monastery) - Sohag
Deir Al Anba Bishay (Monastery of St. Pschoi)- Wadi Natrun
Saint Anthony's Monastery - Red Sea
Arcadius, Basiclica of  - Karm Abu Menas

Deir Al Baramus (Monastery of the Romans) - Wadi Natrun
Saint Barbara's Church (Sitt Barbara) - Cairo

Saint Catherine's Monastery - Sinai

Enaton Monastery - El-Kikheila

Saint George (Keniset Mari Girgis), Church of - Cairo
Saint George (Mari Girgis), Greek Church of - Cairo

Deir al-Muharraq - El-Qusiya
Deir Al Suryan Monastery - Wadi Natrun

Enaton Monastery - El-Kikheila

Hanging Church - Cairo

Saint Jeremiah, Monastery of - Saqqara

The Kellia Hermitages - Near Wadi Natrun

Saint Marcos Church - Alexandria

Saint. Paul's Monastery - Red Sea

Saint. Simeon's Monastery - Aswan
Sinai, Mount - Sinai

Tegran Necropolis - Alexandria
Thermal Basilica - Karm Abu Menas

Virgin, Monastery of the -Minya

Jewish Temples

Ben Ezer's Temple - Cairo

English/French Monuments

High Dam - Aswan

Kitchener's Island - Aswan

Graeco-Roman Monuments

Anfushi Tombs - Alexandria

Babylon, Fort of - Cairo
Bashendi Village - Dakhla( Includes Islamic cemetery)

Al-Deir - Kharga Oasis

Deir Al-Hager, Temple of
Hermopolis (at Ashmunein) - Mallawi

Jebelein - Tod

Khnum, Temple of - Isna

Al-Mizawaka - Dakhla

Pompey's Pillar - Alexandria

Roman Theatre - Alexandria

Speos Artemidos - Mallawi

Tuna el-Jebel - Mallawi

Al-Zayyan Temple - Kharga

Pharaonic Monuments

Abu Ghurab, Sun Temple of - Saqqara
Abu Simbel - Nubia
Abu Sir, Pyramids of - Abu Sir
Abydos, Temple of - Abydos (El Balyana)
Alabaster Sphinx - Saqqara
el-Amarna, Tell - Deir Mawas
Amenemhat III (the Labyrinth), Pyramid of - Fayoum
Amenhotep, Palace of - Thebes
Ankh-mahor, Tomb of - Saqqara
Antinoe - Mallawi
Asasif Necropolis - Thebes
Al-Ashmunayn and Tunah Al-Gabel - Minya
Asyut, Necropolis of - Aysut

Deir el Bahari, Temple of - Thebes
Beni Hassan al-Shurrug - Mallawi

Caesareum - Alexandria
Catacombs of Kom es-Shouqafa - Alexandria
Causeway - Saqqara
Chephren, Pyramid of - Giza
Colossi of Memnon - Thebes
Colossus of Ramesses - Saqqara
Crocodilopolis - Fayoum

Dendera, Temple of - Dendera
Dhashur, Pyramids of - Dhashur

Dishasha Necropolis - Biba

Dionysias - Fayoum
Djoser, Funerary Complex of - Saqqara
Djoser, Step Pyramid of - Saqqara
Dush, Temple of - Kharga

Early Kingdom Mastabas - Saqqara
Elephantine Island - Aswan
Enclosure Wall - Saqqara

Geziret Fara'un - Sinai
Cheops, Pyramid of - Giza
Al-Ghuwaytah, Temple of
Giza, Area of - Cairo

Hibis, Temple of - Kharga
Horus, Temple of - Edfu

Princess Idut, Tomb of - Saqqara

Joseph's or Yusif's Well - Cairo

El Kab - El Mahamid
Kagemni, Tomb of - Saqqara
Kalabsha Temple - Nubia
Karanis - Fayoum
Karnak, Temple of  - Luxor
Kom-Ombo, Temple of - Kom-Ombo

Lisht (Amenemhet I and Senwosret I Pyramids) - El Aiyat
Luxor, Temple of - Luxor

Maidum Pyramid - Maidum
Meir - El-Qusiya
Memphis, Area of- Cairo

Menkaure, Pyramid Complex of - Giza
Mereruka, Tomb of - Saqqara

Nabi Saleh, Tomb of
Naga el-Deir Necropolis
Queen Nebet, Tomb of - Saqqara
Nobles, Tombs of the - Aswan
Nobles, Tombs of the - Thebes

Qaou el Kebir - Badari
Qertassi, Kiosk of - Nubia
Oracle of Amun - Siwa

Persian Shafts - Saqqara
Philae (Now on Agilika Island), Temple of - Nubia
Ptah-hotep, Tomb of - Saqqara

Ramesseum - Thebes
Ramses II, Temple of - Minya
Ramses III, Temple of - Thebes

Saqqara

Saqqara, South - Saqqara
Sarabit al-Khadim, Temple of - Sinai
Sekhemkhet, Pyramid of - Saqqara
Senwosret II, Pyramid of - El Lahun
Serapeum - Saqqara
Great Sphinx - Giza
Silsila - Kom Ombo
Sobek, Temple Dedicated to - Fayoum
Speos of Horemheb - Kom Ombb

Taposiris Magna, Temple of - Alexandria
Teti, Pyramid of - Saqqara
Three Minor Pyramids - Giza
Ti, Tomb of - Saqqara

Unas, Pyramid of - Saqqara
Unfinished Obelisk - Aswan

Valley of the Kings, Area of - Thebes
Valley of the Queens, Area of - Thebes

al-Wali, Beit - Nubia

Museums

Abdeen Palace Museum Complex - Cairo
Ahmed Shawki Museum - Cairo

Beshtak Palace - Cairo

Carriage Museum - Cairo
Child Museum - Cairo
Coptic Museum - Cairo

Denshway Museum - Menofeya Governorate

Egyptian Antiquities Museum - Cairo

Gayer-Anderson Museum
Gezira Center for Modern Art - Cairo
Graeco-Roman Museum - Alexandria

Islamic Ceramics, Museum of- Cairo
Ismailia Museum - Ismailia

Karanis Site Museum - Fayoum
Kasr (Qasr) El-Gawhara (Jewel Palace) - Cairo

Kharga Museum - El Kharga
al-Kritliyya, Bayt - Cairo

Manyal Palace - Cairo
Marine Museum - Hurghada

Military Museum - Cairo
Military Museum - Port Said
Modern Art, Museum of - Port Said
Mohamed Khalil, Museum of - Giza

Mohamed Nagy Museum - Cairo

Mukhtar Museum - Cairo

National Museum - Port Said
Nubian Museum - Aswan

Pharaonic Village - Jacob Island
Postal Museum - Cairo

Qasr Al-Eini Museum (Medical) - Cairo

Rail Museum - Cairo
Royal Jewelry Museum - Alexandria

Al-Suhaymi, Bayt - Cairo

Taha Hussein Museum - Cairo

El-Umma (House of the People), Bayt - Cairo

Modern

Ain Sukhna - Red Sea
Alexandria Beaches - Alexandria
El-Arish Beaches

Cairo International Conference Center - Cairo
Cairo Opera House - Cairo

Cairo Tower (Gezirah) - Cairo

Media Production City

Water Traffic Circle - Alexandria

Other Points of Interest

Geographical Society - Cairo

Multi-Religious Compound - Cairo

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