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
Mount Sinai (Bible)
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Mount Sinai is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to the Hebrew prophet Moses by God, according to the Book of Exodus in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. In the Book of Deuteronomy,
Mount Sinai
…Musa (Arabic: جَبَل مُوسَى, lit. 'Mountain of Moses'), 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 scriptures of the three major Abrahamic religions (Torah, Bible, and Quran), the Hebrew prophet Moses received…
Camels and members of David Roberts' travelling party resting before the approach to Mount Sinai (1839). Painting featured as a coloured lithograph in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia (Vol. 3), Wellcome Collection, London.
Saint Catherine's Monastery in Egypt with Ras Sufsafeh, traditionally considered either Mount Sinai or Horeb, in the background.
The Siq, facing Petra's Treasury, at the foot of Jebel al-Madhbah