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Saint Catherine's Monastery

Also known as St Catherine's Monastery

Saint Catherine's Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai in Egypt, built by order of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I in the mid-sixth century. It is among the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monasteries and holds one of the great libraries of early manuscripts. Palimpsests from a cache found there in 1975 preserve the only known literary texts in the Caucasian Albanian language.

Saint Catherine's Monastery
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Saint Catherine's Monastery. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/saint-catherines-monastery
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The Epoch Institute. “Saint Catherine's Monastery.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/saint-catherines-monastery.
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The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Saint Catherine's Monastery’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/saint-catherines-monastery (Accessed: ).

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