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Saint Catherine's Monastery
Saint Catherine Sinai.jpg
The monastery, with Willow Peak (traditionally considered Mount Horeb) in the background
Monastery information
Order Church of Sinai
Established AD 565
People
Founder(s) Justinian I
Site
Location Saint Catherine, South Sinai Governorate, Egypt
Coordinates 28°33′20″N 33°58′34″E / 28.55556°N 33.97611°E / 28.55556; 33.97611
Official name: Saint Catherine Area
Type: Cultural
Criteria: i, iii, iv, vi
Designated: 2002 (26th session)
Reference #: 954
State Party: Egypt
Region: Arab States

Saint Catherine's Monastery lies on the Sinai Peninsula, at the mouth of a gorge at the foot of Mount Sinai, near the town of Saint Catherine, Egypt. The monastery is named after Catherine of Alexandria.

The monastery is controlled by the autonomous Church of Sinai, part of the wider Greek Orthodox Church, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Built between 548 and 565, the monastery is one of the oldest working Christian monasteries in the world. The site contains the world's oldest continually operating library, possessing many unique books including the Syriac Sinaiticus and, until 1859, the Codex Sinaiticus.

Images for kids

  • Ossuary Sinai

    Ossuary in Saint Catherine's Monastery

  • The Patent of Mohammed

    Ashtiname of Muhammad, granting protection and other privileges to the followers of Jesus

  • Petersinai

    6th-century hot wax icon

  • Encaustic Virgin

    Icon of the enthroned Virgin and Child with saints and angels, 6th century

  • Spas vsederzhitel sinay

    The oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator, encaustic on panel

  • Crucifixion Icon Sinai 13th century

    Crucifixion, 13th century

  • Holy Doors

    Holy doors

  • Mary & Child Icon Sinai 13th century

    Madonna and Child, 13th century

  • Mikharkhangel

    13th century Byzantine icon of Saint Michael the Archangel

  • Transfiguration of Christ Icon Sinai 12th century

    Transfiguration, 12th century

  • The Ladder of Divine Ascent

    Ladder of Divine Ascent

  • John VIII Palaiologos, Sinai

    Emperor John VIII Palaiologos

  • Icon of Saint Catherine

    Icon of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

  • Icon Iakovos Moskos

    The monastery, 18th century

  • Vethiy Denmi (Icons from Saint Catherine's Monastery)

    Christ as the Ancient of Days, 7th century

  • David Roberts - Convent of St. Catherine with Mount Horeb - 1927.90 - Cleveland Museum of Art

    David Roberts, 1839, published in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia

  • Die Gartenlaube (1861) b 060

    Ernst Keil (1861)

  • Adolf Von Meckel - The Saint Catherine Monastery in Sinai

    Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach (1892)

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Monasterio de Santa Catalina del Monte Sinaí para niños

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