The perpetrators fled quickly fled the area, according to witnesses.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but there are concerns that the shooting marks the latest sectarian attack on Egypt's Coptic Christian minority, which makes up around 10% of Egypt's population of 85 million.
Christians have generally co-existed peacefully with majority Sunni Muslims for centuries.
However, the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi in an army-back coup on July 3 was followed by the worst attacks on churches and Christian properties in years.
The attack is also been seen as the failure by the government to protect churches. There was a wave of violence directed towards Christians following Morsi's ouster - over 50 churches were attacked following the brutal army-led clearance of two pro-Morsi protest camps in Cairo in August. More than 1,000 pro-Morsi supporters were killed in the violence which followed the clearing of these two camps.
When head of the armed forces, Gen Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, went on television to announce that the Islamist president Morsi had been ousted following mass opposition protests demanding his resignation on July 3, the head of the Coptic church, Pope Tawadros II appeared alongside him.
Pope Tawadros said that believed that the "roadmap" formulated by the army-back interim government had Egypt's best interests at heart.
He has since received death threats, while several Christians have been killed.
Coptic priest Thomas Daoud Ibrahim said he was inside the church when the gunfire erupted.
"What happened is an insult to Egypt, and it's not only directed against Coptic Christians. We are destroying our own country," he said.
The top cleric at Al-Azhar, the world's primary seat of Sunni Islamic learning, also condemned the attack in a statement Monday. "It is a criminal act that runs contrary to both religion and morals," said Sheik Ahmed el-Tayeb.
Interim prime minister Hazem el-Beblawi said "callous and criminal act" would "not succeed in sowing divisions between the nation's Muslims and Christians". He added a pledge that police would find the perpetrators and bring them to justice.
The attack is also the latest in a series of attacks by militants in Egypt's capital since the July.
In September, the interior minister, who is in charge of police, survived an assassination attempt by a suicide car bombing in Cairo. Earlier this month, militants fired rocket propelled grenades on the nation's largest satellite ground station, also in Cairo. The Interior Ministry reports near-daily discoveries of explosives planted on bridges and major roads.
Clashes between Morsi's supporters and security forces, occur daily in Cairo. At least 53 were killed in October 6, when supporters of Mohamed Morsi, the ousted president, clashed with pro-army supporters and security personnel, on a day which marked the 40th anniversary of the nation's last war with Israel.
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