He made a studio at St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church Kasriet El-Rihan in Old Cairo.
In 1955 he was responsible for the Music & Hymn Department at the Institute of Coptic Studies and moved the primary studio he had already made in St. Mary Church.
He and Margit Toth later worked closely as well with Martha Roy, an ethnomusisologist and lifelong resident of Egypt, who came from a family of American Presbyterian missionaries.
[1][2] With these colleagues, Moftah prepared an edition of the mass, accompanied by musical notations and with Coptic, English and Arabic text.
In 1998 The American University in Cairo published this annotated edition as The Coptic Orthodox Liturgy of St.