Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, the largest in the Middle East, might not be a community one would associate with Jersey City. Due to an ongoing cycle of persecution and discrimination in the Egyptian Copts’ country of origin, however, Jersey City has become one of the largest such communities outside of their native land. With an estimated 15,000 parishioners in the city and 50,000 across New Jersey state, a quiet Egyptian Coptic Christian revival is underway just outside the five boroughs.