2-715-881 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Lane in the Copt Quarter, Cairo', 1890. Coptic Cairo, a part of Old Cairo and Christian stronghold until the Islamic era, most of the current buildings were built after Muslim conquest of Egypt in the 7th century. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. III - The Middle Ages", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890. ]