Islam is the official religion in modern
Egypt
since it entered it in 461 on the hands of Amr Ibn El As and about 90 % of the inhabitants are Muslims . In spit of that there are other religions in Egypt including the Christian Orthodox whose total number reaches about 3 million people . In addition to that there are about 7 million Coptic and one million of other Greek Orthodox and other minute number of Jewish people .
In spite the existence of different religions in Egypt , all the Egyptians enjoy national unity . This may be attributed to the indiscrimination between the two sects to the extent that the Muslims celebrate the feast day of Christians in 7th of March , and the Christians celebrate the feasts of Muslims as well . Religion plays a great role in the life of Egyptians and affects greatly on their traditions and costumes nowadays .
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