Saint Catherine's Monastery - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Saint Catherine's Monastery - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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.Din, Mursi Saad El et al.. Sinai: The Site & The History: Essays. New York: New York University Press, 1998. p. 80. Read more on Wikipedia
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