St. Catherine's Monastery, Saint Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. December 2001.

Ecclesiastical Metalwork, Miniature, Printed Icons

The metalwork objects and the printed icons displayed here allow the visitor to envision the long journeys of the pilgrims in the past who traveled to Sinai, and of the monks who defied great perils to visit dependencies of the monastery around the world

Stories

Manuscripts and Crosses Ecclesiastical Metalwork, Miniature, Printed Icons

Byzantine Icons – Prophet Moses Ecclesiastical Metalwork, Miniature, Printed Icons

Byzantine Icons – Prophet Moses Ecclesiastical Metalwork, Miniature, Printed Icons

Byzantine Icons – Prophet Moses Ecclesiastical Metalwork, Miniature, Printed Icons

Byzantine Icons – Prophet Moses Ecclesiastical Metalwork, Miniature, Printed Icons

Ecclesiastical Metalwork, Miniature, Printed Icons Byzantine Icons – Theotokos (Mother of God)

Byzantine Icons – Prophet Moses Ecclesiastical Metalwork, Miniature, Printed Icons

Ecclesiastical Metalwork, Miniature, Printed Icons

Ottoman Documents Ecclesiastical Metalwork, Miniature, Printed Icons

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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.

Saint Catherine, South Sinai Governorate