St. Catherine - ܕܝܪܐ ܕܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ

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"The Monastery of St. Catherine on Sinai was founded in the 6th cent. It had a multicultural community prior to the Ottoman period when it became entirely Greek."1

Names

ܕܝܪܐ ܕܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ
St. Catherine
ܕܰܝܪܳܐ ܕܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܺܝܢܰܝ3
دير طور سينا4, 7
Monastery of St. Catherine2
Mount Sinai Monastery5
Sinai6
St Catherine’s Monastery8, 9

Place Type

monastery

Location

Coordinates (preferred):
- Lat. 28.5560143° Long. 33.9761746°8

Attestation

Attestation of name دير طور سينا in the Muʿjam al-buldān of Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī. دير طور سينا4, 7 7

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Works Cited

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1 S. P. Brock, Catherine, Monastery of St, in The Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage, ed. Sebastian P. Brock et al. (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 89-90.
2 Sebastian P. Brock et al., Gorgias Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Syriac Heritage (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2011), p: 49, 77, 89–90, 96, 146, 152, 173–174, 193, 237, 240, 262, 285–286, 317, 321, 381, 454 (fig. 32c).
3 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and ܕܒܝܬ ܒܪܨܘܡܐܝܓܢܐܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܩܕܡܝܐ, ܒܪ̈ܘܠܐ ܒܕܝܪ̈ܐ ܕܥܠ ܡܪܕܘܬ ܝܘܠܦܢ̈ܐ ܣܘܪ̈ܝܝܐ ܗܕܝܪ̈ܐ, trans. Philoxenos Yuḥanon Dolabani and ܕܘܠܒܐܢܝܦܝܠܠܘܟܣܝܢܘܣ ܝܘܚܢܢ, ܚܬܳܡܳܐ ܬܪܰܝܳܢܳܐ2nd ed. (Holland: ܡܛܒܥܬܐ ܣܘܪܝܝܬܐ ܕܒܪ ܥܒܪܝܐBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1991), p: 548.
4 Ignatius Afram Barsoum and اغناطيوس افرام الاول برصوم, كتاب اللؤلؤ المنثور في تاريخ العلوم والأداب السريانية, الطبعة الرابعة4th ed. (Holland: مطبعة ابن العبري بدير مار افرام السريانيBar Hebraeus Verlag, 1987), p: 512.
5 Ignatius Aphram Barsoum, The Scattered Pearls: A History of Syriac Literature and Sciences, trans. Matti Moosa, 2nd revised (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2003), p: 567.
6 Sergey Minov, ed., A Comprehensive Bibliography on Syriac Christianity (The Center for the Study of Christianity, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2013), entry: Sinai