Editing Alexandria (section)

==Places of worship==
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===Islam===
{{see also|List of mosques in Alexandria}}
[[File:Mezquita abu el abbas-alejandria-2007.JPG|thumb|[[Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi Mosque]]]]
The most famous mosque in Alexandria is [[Abu al-Abbas al-Mursi Mosque]] in [[Bahary]]. Other notable mosques in the city include [[Ali|Ali ibn Abi Talib]] mosque in Somouha, [[Bilal ibn Ribah|Bilal]] mosque, al-Gamaa al-Bahari in Mandara, Hatem mosque in Somouha, Hoda el-Islam mosque in Sidi Bishr, al-Mowasah mosque in Hadara, Sharq al-Madina mosque in Miami, al-Shohadaa mosque in Mostafa Kamel, Al Qa'ed Ibrahim Mosque,<ref>{{cite web |title=Islamic gems of Alexandria |url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1209/464526/AlAhram-Weekly/Focus/Islamic-gems-of-Alexandria.aspx}}</ref> Yehia mosque in Zizinia, Sidi Gaber mosque in Sidi Gaber, Sidi Besher mosque, Rokay el-Islam mosque in Elessway, Elsadaka Mosque in Sidibesher Qebly, Elshatbi mosque and Sultan mosque.

Alexandria is the base of the [[Salafi movement]]s in Egypt. [[Al-Nour Party]], which is based in the city and overwhelmingly won most of the Salafi votes in the [[2011–12 Egyptian parliamentary election|2011–12 parliamentary election]], supports the president [[Abdel Fattah el-Sisi]].<ref name="FPAl"/>

===Christianity===
[[File:AlexMarkCathedralInside2.jpg|thumb|[[Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral (Alexandria)|Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral]]]]
[[File:StCatherineChurchAlexandria.jpg|thumb|[[St. Catherine's Cathedral, Alexandria|Saint Catherine's Latin Catholic Cathedral]]]]
Alexandria was once considered the third-most important see in [[Christianity]], after [[Rome]] and [[Constantinople]]. Until 430, the Patriarch of Alexandria was second only to the [[bishop of Rome]]. The [[Church of Alexandria]] had jurisdiction over most of the continent of Africa. After the [[Council of Chalcedon]] in AD 451, the Alexandrian Church split between the [[Miaphysitism|Miaphysites]] and the [[Melkite]]s. The Miaphysites went on to constitute what is known today as the [[Coptic Orthodox Church]]. The Melkites went on to constitute what is known today as the [[Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria]]. In the 19th century, [[Catholic]] and [[Protestantism|Protestant]] missionaries converted some of the adherents of the Orthodox churches to their respective faiths.

Today the Patriarchal seat of the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church is [[Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral (Alexandria)|Saint Mark Cathedral]] (though in practice the Patriarch has long resided in Cairo). The most important Coptic Orthodox churches in Alexandria include [[Cyril of Alexandria|Pope Cyril I]] Church in Cleopatra, [[Saint George]]'s Church in Sporting, [[Mark the Evangelist|Saint Mark]] and [[Pope Peter I of Alexandria|Pope Peter I]] Church in Sidi Bishr, [[Blessed Virgin Mary|Saint Mary]] Church in Assafra, Saint Mary Church in Gianaclis, [[Saint Menas|Saint Mina]] Church in Fleming, Saint Mina Church in Mandara and [[St. Takla Haymanot's Church (Alexandria)|Saint Takla Haymanot's Church]] in Ibrahimeya.

The most important [[Eastern Orthodox Church|Eastern Orthodox]] churches in Alexandria are [[Holy Unmercenaries|Agioi Anárgyroi]] Church, Church of the [[Annunciation]], [[Anthony the Great|Saint Anthony]] Church, Archangels [[Gabriel]] and [[Michael (archangel)|Michael]] Church, Taxiarchon Church, [[Catherine of Alexandria|Saint Catherine]] Church, Cathedral of the [[Dormition of the Theotokos|Dormition]] in Mansheya, Church of the Dormition, [[Elijah|Prophet Elijah]] Church, [[Saint George]] Church, [[Saint Joseph]] Church in Fleming, [[Joseph of Arimathea|Saint Joseph of Arimathea]] Church, [[Mark the Evangelist|Saint Mark]] and [[Nectarios of Aegina|Saint Nektarios]] Chapel in Ramleh, [[Saint Nicholas]] Church, [[Paraskevi of Rome|Saint Paraskevi]] Church, [[Saint Sava]] Cathedral in Ramleh, [[Theodore of Amasea|Saint Theodore]] Chapel and the [[Russian Orthodox Church|Russian]] church of [[Alexander Nevsky|Saint Alexander Nevsky]] in Alexandria, which serves the Russian speaking community in the city.

The [[Apostolic Vicariate of Alexandria in Egypt-Heliopolis-Port Said]] has jurisdiction over all [[Latin Church|Latin Catholics]] in Egypt. Member churches include Saint Catherine Church in Mansheya and Church of the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]] in Cleopatra. The city is also the nominal see of the [[Melkite Greek Catholic Church|Melkite Greek Catholic]] [[Melkite Catholic Patriarchate of Antioch|titular Patriarchate of Alexandria]] (generally vested in its leading Patriarch of Antioch) and the actual cathedral see of its [[Patriarchal territory of Egypt, Sudan and South Sudan]], which uses the [[Byzantine Rite]], and the nominal see of the [[Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Alexandria]] (for all Egypt and Sudan, whose actual cathedral is in Cairo), a suffragan of the [[Armenian Catholic Patriarch of Cilicia]], using the [[Armenian Rite]].
	
The Saint Mark Church in [[Shatby]], founded as part of [[Collège Saint Marc, Alexandria|Collège Saint Marc]], is multi-denominational and holds liturgies according to Latin Catholic, [[Coptic Catholic Church|Coptic Catholic]] and Coptic Orthodox rites.

In antiquity Alexandria was a major centre of the cosmopolitan religious movement called [[Gnosticism]]<ref>{{cite web |title=The School of Alexandria |url=https://www.copticchurch.net/patrology/schoolofalex/I-Intro/chapter4.html}}</ref> (today mainly remembered as a Christian heresy).

===Judaism===
[[File:Eliyahu-Hanavi-Synagogue.jpg|thumb|[[Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue]]]]
[[History of the Jews in Alexandria|Alexandria's Jewish community]] declined rapidly following the [[1948 Arab–Israeli War]], after which negative reactions towards [[Zionism]] among Egyptians led to Jewish residents in the city, and elsewhere in Egypt, being perceived as Zionist collaborators. Most Jewish residents of Egypt moved to the newly settled [[Israel]], [[France]], [[Brazil]] and other countries in the 1950s and 1960s.  The community once numbered 50,000 but is now estimated at below 50.<ref>[http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/12/20/2742246/egypt-plans-to-restore-alexandrias-historic-synagogue Egypt to restore Alexandria's historic synagogue], (20 December 2010) {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224165555/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/12/20/2742246/egypt-plans-to-restore-alexandrias-historic-synagogue|date=24 December 2010 }}</ref> The most important [[synagogue]] in Alexandria is the [[Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue (Alexandria)|Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue]].