St. Catherine's Monastery At God-trodden Mount Sinai
The Greek Orthodox monastery where God appeared to Moses in the Burning Bush. The oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery with a history that can be traced back over seventeen centuries.
The Greek Orthodox monastery where God appeared to Moses in the Burning Bush. The oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery with a history that can be traced back over seventeen centuries.
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 SummitLearn more about the monastery where Moses appeared to God and visit the Burning Bush
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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.
