The church is distinguished by its unique architectural and artistic elements, which reflect the spirit of Coptic architecture in Egypt, such as the nobility, the baptismal bath, the wooden veils inlaid with ivory, in addition to the religious scenes representing the saints and icons on the various domes, walls, and columns.

It is believed that the reason for the church’s fame is the presence of the escape cave at the church’s structure, which is the cave in which the Holy Family stayed, its length is 6 m and its width is 4.5 m. The cave from two sides by means of stairs, one from the hall of the southern temple of the church and the other from the middle of the hall in the northern temple, where there are two rooms in each of the northern and southern sides, the northern room for preparing the ritual preparation, and the southern room dedicated to keeping tools and clothes used in rituals, then their functions multiplied after In the two rooms there are vaults that lead to the archaeological cave.

 The church is distinguished by the presence of three structures and an old wooden altar made of walnut wood, which is now displayed in the Coptic Museum in Old Cairo. The veil of the middle wooden structure includes icons dating back to the thirteenth century AD with images of saints and stories from the Holy Bible and the two side veils dating back to 1738 AD, and most of the icons in the church date back to the eighth century AD. The tenth-century AD, the most important of which is an archaeological icon representing the arrival of the Holy Family to the land of Egypt, dating back to the ninth century AD.