Mount Sinai
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Mount Sinai, also known as Jabal Musa, is a mountain on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt. It is one of several locations claimed to be the biblical Mount Sinai, the place where, according to the sacred sc
Mount Sinai as seen from the southwest
Jebel Musa in the 1869 Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, shown north of Mount Catherine (Jebel Katarina) and south of Willow Peak (Ras es-Safsafeh)
Saint Catherine's Monastery, looking down from Mount Sinai
The mosque at the summit
Saint Catherine, Egypt
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Saint Catherine is a town located in the South Sinai Governorate of Egypt, situated at the foot of Mount Sinai. The city is the site of Saint Catherine's Monastery.
Mount Sinai
…Torah, Bible, and Quran), the Hebrew prophet Moses received the Ten Commandments from God. It is a 2,285-meter (7,497 ft) mountain near the city of Saint Catherine in the region known today as the Sinai Peninsula. It is surrounded on all sides by higher peaks in the mountain range of which it is a part. For example…
Saint Catherine downtown on a snowy day
Saint Catherine's Monastery
Vethiy Denmi (Icons from Saint Catherine's Monastery)
The Oasis of Wadi Fairan, c. 1830