St. Katharinen-Kloster, Das Katharinenkloster auf der Sinai-Halbinsel in Ägypten. Dezember 2001.

St. Katharinen-Kloster Am von Gott heimgesuchten Berg Sinai

Das griechisch-orthodoxe Kloster, in dem Gott Moses im Brennenden Busch erschien. Das älteste durchgehend bewohnte christliche Kloster mit einer Geschichte, die sich über siebzehn Jahrhunderte zurückverfolgen lässt.

This exhibition is brought to you by the partnership of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Mount Sinai Foundation.

Sketch of cross

Explore the Holy Summit of Mount Sinai

The Holy Summit of Sinai, also known as Jebel Mousa, is the place where Moses received the Law from God.

Explore the Summit

Das Kloster
und die Kapelle des Brennenden Busches

Erfahren Sie mehr über das Kloster, in dem Moses Gott erschien, und besuchen Sie den Brennenden Dornbusch.


Einführung in das Kloster und Museum

Besuch des Klosters und des Brennenden Busches

Entdecken Sie mehr über das Kloster und seine Geschichte

Get Involved. Subscribe the Monastery.

Saint Catherine's Monastery relies on the support of contributors around the world just like you.

Subscribe the Monastery
App screenshot

Die heilige Katharina: Die große Märtyrerin


Wer war die Heilige Katharina?

St. Catherine's Feast Day Around the World

Göttliche Kunst: Die Reliquien der heiligen Katharina

Saint Catherine with scenes of her life and honor

Saint Catherine is depicted accompanied by angels holding up her halo. The symbols of the Mother of God adopted by Cretan painters in the sixteenth century refer to her learning, her struggle for Christ, and her martyrdom and triumph.


See the Relics in the Monastery Museum

For more than sixteen hundred years, the monks have carefully preserved the icons, vestments, manuscripts, liturgical objects, and other treasures in their possession.

Enter the Museum

Click and drag to reveal the hidden texts in the manuscript

An international team of 23 world-renowned scholars, each an expert in ancient languages and manuscript studies, are working with the project to identify and describe the undertexts of Sinai palimpsests, after they are rendered legible via spectral imaging.

Verborgene antike Texte aufdecken

The Sinai Palimpsests Project is using state-of-the-art spectral imaging to recover erased texts from palimpsest manuscripts in the library of St. Catherine's Monastery of the Sinai, the world's oldest continually operating monastery.


Continue Exploring