The interior of Saint Barbara Church (Kaniset El-Qeddisa Barbara) in Coptic Cairo, located in the Mar Girgis area of Old Cairo. The church features a tall wooden carved ceiling with exposed dark timber beams, arched brick walls, a central hanging chandelier, ornate wooden iconostasis, and a red-carpeted nave leading to the altar. Visitors are seen seated along the wooden pews. Saint Barbara Church is one of the oldest Coptic Orthodox churches in Egypt, originally built in the 5th century and reconstructed multiple times, dedicated to Saint Barbara who was martyred in the 3rd century AD.