Mount Sinai

What this place is

• Holy site — the mountain the monks took Egeria up in the 380s as the place where the law was given, with a small church on the summit and a cave shown as Moses's

Who is recorded here

• Nilus of Sinai death · AD 430

What happened here

• Egeria climbs Mount Sinai AD 383

In art

• Moses on Mt. Sinai — Daniele da Volterra (1540)
• Mount Sinai — El Greco (1568)
• Mount Sinai — El Greco (1570)
• The Adoration of the Golden Calf — Nicolas Poussin (1634)
• Moïse sur le mont Sinaï — Mattia Preti (1640)

About the place

Mount Sinai, also known as Jabal Musa, is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is one of several locations claimed to be the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the sacred scriptures of the three major Abrahamic religions, the Hebrew prophet Moses received the Ten Commandments from God.

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