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Saint Catherine's Monastery
Also known as Sinai library
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28.5558, 33.9756 · Wikidata Q185362 P625 (accessed 2026-11-12) · On the map
Justinianic monastery (548-565) with one of the oldest working libraries, home of Syriac Sinaiticus and once Codex Sinaiticus.
Wikipedia extract
Saint Catherine's Monastery, officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. Located at the foot of Mount Sinai, it was built between 548 and 565, and is the world's oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery.
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- Saint Catherine's Monastery · Wikipedia contributorsAccessed 2026-11-12 · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Wikidata Q185362 · Wikidata contributorsAccessed 2026-11-12 · CC0 1.0
- Catholic Encyclopedia (1907-1912) article · Various (Catholic Encyclopedia)Accessed 2026-11-12 · 1907-1912 text public domain in the US; dated and confessional, use for history of reception
- Pleiades place 746826 · Pleiades contributorsAccessed 2026-11-12 · CC BY 3.0
Authority files
- Q185362
- Pleiades 746826
- VIAF 136013277
- Library of Congress n50069569
- Catholic Encyclopedia 03442b
Related
- Mount Sinai · place
- Tischendorf at Sinai (1844, 1859) · event
libraries · manuscripts · sinai