Saint Catherine Monastery

School or library

Greek Orthodox monastery (the oldest) at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt

Location: 28.5558, 33.9756 · Pleiades 746826

What this place is

School or library — the library of the monastery Justinian built under Sinai — Greek, Syriac, Georgian and Arabic books, some of them as old as the foundation itself

Who is recorded here

Anastasius Sinaita death · AD 701

In art

Triptych of the Last Judgement (Klontzas) — Georgios Klontzas (1600)
Transfiguration and Monastic Scenes (Klontzas) — Georgios Klontzas (1603)
The Saint Catherine Monastery in Sinai — Adolf Meckel von Hemsbach (1890)
File:Katharinenkloster Sinai BW 2.jpg — Berthold Werner

About the place

Saint Catherine's Monastery, 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.

From Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-08-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0