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St. Catherine's Monastery is located St. Catherine's Monastery in South Sinai, Egypt down Mount Catherine highest mountains in Egypt, near Mount Moses. And
is said to be the oldest monastery in the world, is tourist site great,
where your destination tourist groups from all parts of the world, a
retreat, run by the abbot, a bishop Sinai, and which is not subject to
the authority of any patriarch or complex sacred but ties and relations
with Patriarch of Jerusalem therefore Name
Patriarch of Jerusalem mentioned in the masses, although the custody of
the monastery was for long periods of the Russian Orthodox Church, and
monks and priests monastery of Greeks and not Arabs or Egyptians, like
Archbishop Greek Orthodox Church in Jerusalem controlled by Greeks from
the era long. The
Bishop of Sinai runs alongside the monastery churches and holy shrines
in South Sinai in the area of Tur and Ferran Oasis and blink.
Contents
1 monastery date
2 Story of St. Catherinehttp://youtu.be/jMrCM8MXAEs
3 archaeological value
4 monastery mosque
5 External links
History of the monastery
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Monastery
built on the order of the empress Helen mother of Emperor Constantine,
but the Emperor Justinian is actually the building between the years
545]] to contain the remains of Saint Catherine, who lived in
Alexandria.
Orthodox Church
Story of St. Catherine
The
story goes that St. Catherine of an aristocratic family and tuck - was
born in Alexandria 194 AD and was called Zorossiaccant educated and
beautiful Rgbha total for its beauty and refused to everyone and secured
Christianity during the persecution of Emperor Maximenus and accused
him publicly of having sacrifices to idols Lama is lost is 50 orator
from all over the empire in order to induce them, but on the contrary
what it has embraced those of Christianity. After
nearly three centuries of the death Katrinazart her remains holy
valuable dream a monks monastery which had been set up Justinian she
conveyed the remains and put valuable church structure box Rukhmy beside
the main structure is still good flowing from the remains of the saint
is a marvel permanent and became the monastery known name from the
eleventh century . The Church of Alexandria in its name
The oldest monastery manuscript
Archaeological value
Contains
monastery on historic church with gifts ancient kings and princes,
including chandeliers of silver and has a well say that he was well
Moses, as it has been built around a tree is said to be a tree of Moses
which caught fire Vahtdy to Moses to speak to his Lord, and say it that
attempts were made to be cultivated outside monastery but failed and it does not grow in any other place outside the monastery.
Monastery
represents a piece of art historical multi, there is a mosaic and
Russian and Greek icons and frescoes and the inscription on the oily wax
and others.
The
monastery also has a library of manuscripts said to be the second
largest libraries of manuscripts after the Vatican, and hostel for
visitors and archaeological Join tower bells. And based on the service of the monastery some members of the Bedouin.
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In
addition to the remains of St. Catherine, there is a monastery (Mostly)
containing the remains of all the monks who lived in the monastery and
allowed a visit from early morning until noon then closes its doors to
visitors for a freelance monks of their religious duties.
All
committed to Western tourists and other بالاحتشام in clothing when
entering the monastery, there are available loose dresses worn wanted
people before they enter the monastery.
The
only entrance to the monastery was a small door at a height of 30 feet,
has been designed to protect the monastery from strangers and
intruders, where the people are raising and casting box is driven by a
system of levers and pulleys. But now there is a small door bottom wall of the monastery.
Mosque monastery
It
is worth mentioning that there is a small mosque, one of the rulers of
Egypt in the Fatimid era built inside the monastery even protects the
monastery of attacks that were exposed to the monastery from time to
time, to some, especially from Orientalists interpret this as a form of
domination Islamic at the time ,
as Napoleon Bonaparte during the French campaign on Egypt to strengthen
the fence - which has a height of 40-200 feet - and Talith and
established defenses after complaints monks the monastery's exposure to
some of the attacks.
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