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Mount Sinai travel guide from Wikivoyage; Caucasian Albanian Alphabet Discovered and Deciphered, Azerbaijan International, Vol. 11:3 (Autumn 2003). Six articles. View OF Mount Sinai (as opposed to the view FROM Mount Sinai) Archived 2020-10-10 at the Wayback Machine; Information about the town of St. Katherine and the Sinai mountains; A Report ...
Saint Catherine's Monastery (Arabic: دير القدّيسة كاترين Dayr al-Qiddīsa Katrīn; Greek: Μονὴ τῆς Ἁγίας Αἰκατερίνης), officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
Mount Sinai, showing the approach to Mount Sinai, 1839 painting by David Roberts, in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia. The biblical account of the giving of the instructions and teachings of the Ten Commandments was given in the Book of Exodus, primarily between chapters 19 and 24, during which Sinai is mentioned by name twice, in Exodus 19:2; 24:16.
The Church of Sinai owes its existence to the Monastery of the Transfiguration (better known as St. Catherine's Monastery). The monastery's origins are traced back to the Chapel of the Burning Bush that Constantine the Great's mother, Helena, had built over the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush.
Like the Qarawiyyin Mosque, there are doubts about the story of its foundation. The oldest parts of the present building date from the 10th century. [44] It was mostly reconstructed by the Almohads between 1203 and 1207. [48] Al-Naqah Mosque: Tripoli Libya: 973 Oldest Islamic monument in Tripoli, [49] though its history is not well-known. [50]
A mosque on top of Mount Sinai, in the Asian part of present-day Egypt The Sinai Peninsula is associated with the prophets Harun ( Aaron ) and Musa ( Moses ). [ 37 ] In particular, numerous references to Mount Sinai exist in the Quran, [ 38 ] [ 39 ] where it is called Ṭūr Saināʾ , [ 40 ] Ṭūr Sīnīn , [ 41 ] and aṭ-Ṭūr [ 42 ] [ 43 ...
This area housed the Ark of the Covenant, inside which were the two stone tablets brought down from Mount Sinai by Moses on which were written the Ten Commandments, a golden urn holding the manna, and Aaron's rod which had budded and borne ripe almonds (Exodus 16:33–34, Numbers 17:1–11, Deuteronomy 10:1–5; Hebrews 9:2–5).
6th-century mosaic of the Transfiguration in Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai Peninsula. At Mount Sinai, the Monastery of Saint Catherine (originally dedicated to and named after the Burning Bush [31]) was built by emperor Justinian (r. 527–565). [32] Today it is the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery in the world.