The Monastery of Saint Catherine: A Living Witness at the Foot of Sinai
How a remote monastery in the Sinai Peninsula became one of Christianity’s most enduring centers of memory, worship, and learning.
The Monastery of Saint Catherine is one of the oldest continuously functioning Christian monasteries in the world, becoming notable in Christian history through its location, its longevity, and its role in preserving early Christian tradition. Situated at the foot of Mount Sinai in the southern Sinai Peninsula, the monastery occupies a landscape already sacred within biblical history long before the rise of Christianity. Its historical importance lies in how it connected the earliest Christian centuries with the biblical past, anchoring Christian worship and learning in a place remembered as central to the story inherited from the Hebrew Scriptures.
