Architecture of Egypt: Difference between revisions

At [[Mount Sinai]], the [[Monastery of Saint Catherine]] (originally dedicated to and named after the [[Burning bush|Burning Bush]]<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3ockEAAAQBAJ&dq=saint+catherine+monastery+sinai+architecture&pg=PA1482 |title=Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition |publisher=Routledge |year=2000 |isbn=978-1-135-94206-9 |editor-last=Speake |editor-first=Graham |pages=1480–1482 |language=en |chapter=Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai}}</ref>) was built by emperor [[Justinian I|Justinian]] (r. 527–565).<ref name=":7">{{Cite book |last=Hatlie |first=Peter |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781444338386 |title=The Encyclopedia of Ancient History |publisher=Wiley |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-4051-7935-5 |editor-last=Erskine |editor-first=Andrew |edition=1 |language=en |chapter=Sinai, Monastery of St. Catherine |doi=10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah03219 |editor-last2=Hollander |editor-first2=David B. |editor-last3=Papaconstantinou |editor-first3=Arietta |editor-last4=Bagnall |editor-first4=Roger S. |editor-last5=Brodersen |editor-first5=Kai |editor-last6=Champion |editor-first6=Craige B. |editor-last7=Huebner |editor-first7=Sabine R. |editor-link7=Sabine R. Huebner }}</ref> Today it is the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery in the world.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Evans |first=Helen C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=izr8rGsQ0UoC&dq=oldest+continuously+monastery+world&pg=PA15 |title=Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt: A Photographic Essay |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |year=2004 |isbn=978-1-58839-109-4 |page=15 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Berger |first=Sidney E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e6cDDQAAQBAJ&dq=oldest+continuously+monastery+world&pg=PA229 |title=The Dictionary of the Book: A Glossary for Book Collectors, Booksellers, Librarians, and Others |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |year=2016 |isbn=978-1-4422-6340-6 |page=229 |language=en}}</ref> Although much rebuilt and restored,<ref name=":10">{{Cite journal |last1=Hamilton |first1=Bernard |last2=Jotischky |first2=Andrew |date=2022 |title=The Mount Sinai Monastery: A Successful Example of Shared Holy Space |journal=Al-Masāq |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=127–139 |doi=10.1080/09503110.2021.2007715 |s2cid=247508246 |issn=0950-3110}}</ref> the site still retains substantial remains from its sixth-century construction,<ref name=":7" /> including a three-aisled basilical church with a [[Byzantine mosaics|Byzantine mosaic]] of the [[Transfiguration of Jesus|Transfiguration]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":10" />