It is the capital of Egypt, Cairo - a metropolis with 20 million inhabitants.
Somewhere here two thousand years ago, Mary and Joseph with the baby Jesus, lived for a while to escape the persecution of Herod:
...an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said:
Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee,
for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
He got up, took the child and his mother by night and departed into Egypt: And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
... After the death of Herod, - an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother and go to the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child. Matt. 2: 13-20
Unfortunately, I was not able to get into the church, erected "on the spot", only saw her from afar, from the bus window.
The first light of dawn on Mount Moses (Mount Sinai).
For this spectacle pilgrims start climbing at 2am.
This happens only at dawn, when the weather is nice.
With the weather we're out of luck - there was snow, thunder with lightning, ice on the steps and the piercing wind. In general - a real test.
The Bedouins say that the weather here happens once every three years.
From the mountain of Moses with the first rays of the sun shadow falls on the nearest hill, leaving a clear silhouette
Modern scholars dispute the historicity of the Sinai, where I was, and indicate a very different mountain, closer to Israel, in Saudi Arabia.
The Apostle Paul also shows that the mountain of Moses is found in Arabia:
... For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, because with her children in bondage. Galatians 4:25
At the top of Mount Sinai is now a small monastery.
And at the foot of the mountain - the monastery of St. Catherine - possibly the first Christian monastery. In it is "stored" Burning Bush. There's also - well Moses.
Somewhere in here "bred" the first Christian hermits. 
In the crevices of the local rocks huddled Anthony - one of the first known Christian hermit - ascetics.
Pyramid, which, according to some danym built including and the Jews who are in bondage.
Little remains of its former greatness.
Pigeons have found refuge in him, bringing with them at least some life
