I have decided to do something that I wasn't quite brave enough to do last time I was In Cairo, go to church.
I have discovered that All Saints Anglican Cathedral is situated right next to the Marriott Hotel on Gezira Island in central Cairo and it so happens that the hotel that we stay in at the end of the Grand Tour of Egypt is the Marriott.
After my tour back in 1993 I stayed on in Cairo for three extra days, but transfered from the Semiramis InterContinental  which was in central Cairo to a Hotel nearer to the airport. I had thought about visiting the church back then but I found that I didn't have the guts to travel Cairo by myself.
Well this time I'll have no excuse, All Saints being on the back doorstep.
It will be great to be able to take greetings from All Saints Matamata to All Saints Cairo too. :)



A little history then about All Saints Cathedral, Cairo

In 1879 the first All Saints was opened and was located next to the Nile and behind the Egyptian Museum.
In 1920 the Diocese of Egypt and Sudan was formed, with Llewelyn Gwynne as it's first Bishop.
Bishop Gwynne Established the second All Saints Cairo.
In 1970 this cathedral was demolished to make way for a new Nile bridge and the new third All Saints moved across the river was completed in 1988.  

Link to Diocese of Egypt English web page
http://www.dioceseofegypt.org/english/