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El Neguev Synagogue, also the Jewish Community of Venta Prieta, in Hidalgo [3] Agudas Ajim; Adat Israel; Monte Sinaí; Rodfei Tzedek; Beth Moshe; Shar le Simja; Beth Yosef; Hoel Yitzjak; Beth Yitzjak; Or Joseph; Habitat; Maguén David; Aram Zoba; Maor Abraham; Maor Hatora; Keter Tora; Birkat Shmuel; Ramat Shalom; Shaarei Tzion; Bet El; Beth ...
The Church of Sinai owes its existence to the Monastery of the Transfiguration (better known as St. Catherine's Monastery). The monastery's origins are traced back to the Chapel of the Burning Bush that Constantine the Great's mother, Helena, had built over the site where Moses is supposed to have seen the burning bush.
In 1991, the first stone of a third campus was laid in the Bosques de las Lomas neighborhood, designed by renowned architect Abraham Zabludovsky. It was inaugurated on May 8, 1994, in a grand community celebration. [3] It began the International Baccalaureate in 2010. [4] Among its alumni is the Mexican-Israeli entrepreneur Isaac Assa. [5] [6]
However, Dr. Har-El was a geologist and he discusses in detail the geographic and environmental markers in Sinai, which do survive to the present day. He notes how they compare with the biblical account. Dr. Har-El gave nine main reasons why he believed the traditional location of Gabal Horeb (Gabal Musa) in southern Sinai was not Mount Sinai:
The Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai – The Church and Fortress of Justinian: Plates. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-472-33000-4. Paul Géhin (2017). Les manuscrits syriaques de parchemin du Sinaï et leur membra disjecta. CSCO 665 / Subsidia 136. Louvain: Peeters. ISBN 978-90-429-3501-3; Margaret Dunlop Gibson (1893).
The Sinaia Monastery, located in Sinaia, in Prahova County, Romania, was founded by Prince Mihail Cantacuzino in 1695 and named after the great Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai in Egypt. As of 2005, it is inhabited by 13 Christian Orthodox monks led by hegumen Macarie Boguș. It is part of the Bucharest archdiocese.
The traditional Christian Orthodox identification of Mount Sinai as Jabal Musa (one of the peaks at the southern tip of the Sinai peninsula) would imply that the wilderness of Sin was probably the narrow plain of el-Markha, which stretches along the eastern shore of the Red Sea for several miles toward the promontory of Ras Mohammed; however ...
Mount Sinai, showing the approach to Mount Sinai, 1839 painting by David Roberts, in The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia. The biblical account of the giving of the instructions and teachings of the Ten Commandments was given in the Book of Exodus, primarily between chapters 19 and 24, during which Sinai is mentioned by name twice, in Exodus 19:2; 24:16.