The church was described by Al-Maqrizi in the History of the Patriarchs of the Coptic Church, and it was completed by Athanasius during Ibn Marwan’s reign.
The Red Pyramid, the biggest of the three main Pyramids at the Dahshur Necropolis, was regarded to be one of the earliest Pyramids to explore the notion of a smooth-sided Pyramid, and it is the oldest of the three major Pyramids in Egypt.
As a result of the pyramid’s construction by Imhotep, Zoser’s principal architect, in the 27th century BC, it was the biggest edifice ever created in stone and, according to one historian, it marked the “first stages of architecture.”