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'''Saint Catherine’s Monastery''' on [[Mount Sinai]], also known as "Sinai Monastery," is the oldest continuously active Christian [[monastery]] in the world, built between A.D. 548 and 565.
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'''Saint Catherine’s Monastery''' on [[Mount Sinai]], also known as "Sinai Monastery," is the oldest continuously active Christian [[monastery]] in the world, built between A.D. 548 and 565.  It is a Greek Orthodox monastery.
 
{{cquote|Of its 3,300 manuscripts, two-thirds are in Greek. The rest are principally in Arabic, Syriac, Georgian, and Slavonic, through there are other manuscripts in Polish, Hebrew, Ethiopian, Armenian, Latin, and Persian.<ref>https://www.sinaimonastery.com/index.php/en/library/manuscripts</ref>}}
 
{{cquote|Of its 3,300 manuscripts, two-thirds are in Greek. The rest are principally in Arabic, Syriac, Georgian, and Slavonic, through there are other manuscripts in Polish, Hebrew, Ethiopian, Armenian, Latin, and Persian.<ref>https://www.sinaimonastery.com/index.php/en/library/manuscripts</ref>}}
 
== History ==
 
== History ==
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Its library is being digitized with the help of the [[University of California]].
 
Its library is being digitized with the help of the [[University of California]].
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== Location ==
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It is "situated on Mount Sinai more than 5,000 feet (1,500 metres) above sea level in a narrow valley north of Mount Mūsā in the Sinai peninsula."<ref>https://www.britannica.com/topic/Saint-Catherines-Monastery</ref>
 
[[Category:Christianity]]
 
[[Category:Christianity]]
 
[[Category:Monasteries]]
 
[[Category:Monasteries]]
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