Peoples' celebrations of Christian Day take on different aspects that reflect their culture and civilization, east and west, from the Christmas tree, candles, and various rituals, and perhaps exotic ones.
Egyptian Christmas celebrations of Christmas shared a spiritual significance in terms of fasting preceding holidays or religious songs and hymns.
Preparing luxurious clothes and food, gathering loved ones, giving alms to the poor, and distributing gifts.
The Pharaonic cultural heritage almost rears its head in the aspects of Christmas celebration, starting with the Coptic astronomical calendar, according to which the holiday is celebrated on January 7, compared to the West, which celebrates it on December 25.
It refers to the origin of the Coptic Christmas tree and the nature of the foods that Egyptian Christians are keen to eat in connection with spiritual and religious beliefs, which continue until the Epiphany following Christmas.
The ancient fathers and historians disagreed about the year and day of the birth of Jesus Christ, and the likely period of his birth was determined to be between the third and eighth centuries BC.
They explained that the first to celebrate “Christmas” as an independent holiday was Rome, and for that reason it was set December 25 in the third century AD, from there, the celebrations moved to North Africa and Gaul (currently France and the Iberian Peninsula), then the East, where Constantinople celebrated it in the year 380 AD, followed by Asia Minor, and then Antioch in the year 386 AD, according to the sermon of John Chrysostom, and in Cyprus in the early The fifth century AD, and the last to celebrate Christmas independently, was Jerusalem in 549 AD.