The Ben Ezra Synagogue is the oldest synagogue in Egypt, one of the most historically significant Jewish heritage monuments in the complete African heritage record, and the single most personally extraordinary and the most intellectually astonishing ancient Jewish sacred space accessible at any heritage destination in the complete Egyptian capital, a building of such completely extraordinary historical depth, such completely unexpected scholarly significance, and such completely personal atmospheric beauty that it stands in the Jewish heritage record of the African continent in a position of supreme individual importance, the place where the most consequential single discovery in the complete modern history of Jewish manuscript scholarship was made in 1896 when the Cambridge University scholar Solomon Schechter identified in the synagogue's ancient geniza, the sealed chamber used for the respectful storage of worn sacred texts, approximately 300,000 individual manuscript fragments spanning nearly a thousand years of Jewish literary, religious, commercial, and personal documentary production from the 9th through the 19th centuries CE in the most extraordinary single collection of medieval Jewish material documentary heritage ever recovered from any single source in the complete modern history of Jewish scholarship. The Ben Ezra Synagogue is located in the heart of the most personally extraordinary multi-faith heritage neighbourhood in the complete Egyptian capital, the Old Cairo Babylon Fortress Coptic heritage district whose walking-distance combination of the ancient Jewish synagogue with the most celebrated ancient Coptic churches of the Hanging Church and the St George Church, the most comprehensive Coptic heritage museum of the adjacent Coptic Museum, and the oldest mosque in Africa at the Amr Ibn Al-Ass Mosque gives the complete Old Cairo heritage district its most personally extraordinary and its most completely affecting multi-faith heritage character of any accessible heritage neighbourhood in the complete world, a neighbourhood whose specific combination of ancient Jewish, Christian, and Islamic sacred spaces within walking distance of each other gives every visitor to the Ben Ezra Synagogue the most direct and the most personally affecting encounter with the extraordinary historical coexistence of the three primary Abrahamic religious traditions in the ancient Nile Valley capital available at any accessible heritage destination in the complete African and Middle Eastern world. This extraordinary monument is featured in Cairo Tours, Egypt Classic Tours, and Egypt Short Break Tours, all of which WOW Egypt Tours proudly offers to travelers from around the world as part of Egypt Tours Packages and Egypt Travel Packages that encompass the extraordinary multi-faith and ancient heritage of Cairo and the complete Egyptian Nile Valley civilization.