Monastère Sainte-Catherine Sur le mont Sinaï, foulé par Dieu
Le monastère grec orthodoxe où Dieu est apparu à Moïse dans le Buisson ardent. Le plus ancien monastère chrétien habité en permanence, dont l'histoire remonte à plus de dix-sept siècles.
Le monastère grec orthodoxe où Dieu est apparu à Moïse dans le Buisson ardent. Le plus ancien monastère chrétien habité en permanence, dont l'histoire remonte à plus de dix-sept siècles.
This exhibition is brought to you by the partnership of the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities and the Mount Sinai Foundation.
The Holy Summit of Sinai, also known as Jebel Mousa, is the place where Moses received the Law from God.
Explore the SummitEn savoir plus sur le monastère où Moïse est apparu à Dieu et visiter le Buisson ardent.
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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.
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 MuseumAn 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.
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.
