garbage city and church in the cave

Someone had told us while in Cairo we should go see the church in the cave and garbage city. It was interesting. You have to drive though this area of town called "garbage city" and it literally is. These people basically live in a garbage dump. Big trucks bring the garbage in and then these people go through it and recycle all that they can. The thing is though that this is not just where they work but where they live. They have bags of garbage stacked everywhere!!! on roofs, all along the streets, right out the door of stores and restaurants, everywhere, and it stinks!!! We had the windows rolled up and it was still really bad. But when you get though it all you come to this mountain and they have basically built a church in the cave of this mountain and actually there are a couple of churches down there. One is just huge, like a big amphitheater. Also there are incredible carvings in the side of the mountain depicting many of the famous Bible stories. We took lots of pictures of different ones but the two below were my favorites. I read somewhere that 90% of the people living in garbage city are christians, of course this does not mean that they are all believers, they are called coptic christians and it is an orthodox church, but it was pretty amazing to see!