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Mount Sinai
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:''For other places named Mount Sinai, see:
Mount Sinai (disambiguation)''
Image:MountSinaiView.jpg thumbnail|190px|right|View from the summit of Mount Sinai
Image:Jabal-musa-location.png right|frame|Sinai Peninsula, showing location of Jabal Musa
'''Mount Sinai''', also known as "Gebel Musa" or "Jabal Musa" by the
Bedouins, is the name of a mountain in the
Sinai Peninsula. It is 2,285 metres high and is located in a mountain range in the southern part of the
peninsula. It is near a protruding lower bluff known as the Ras Sasafeh (Sufsafeh), and rises almost perpendicularly from the plain.
The Monastery of St. Catherine is sited at the foot of the mountain, at an elevation of around 1,200m. There are two principal routes to the summit, only one of which may be ascended at night. By the longer and less steep track it is possible to ascend either on foot or by camel hired from the Bedouin along the way - approximate time on foot two and a half hours. The steep, more direct route ascends the 3,750 "steps of penitence" directly up the ravine behind the monastery and may not be ascended by night.
The summit of the mountain has a mosque and an orthodox chapel, neither of which are open to the public. At the summit also is "Moses' cave" where Moses is supposed to have waited to receive the Commandments.
To some scholars it is the same as the
Biblical Mount Sinai, though this is not agreed upon.
See also
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Sinai
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Biblical Mount Sinai
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Archaeology
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Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai
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Mount Gerizim
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Jebel Musa, Morocco, a similarly-named mountain in
Morocco
External links
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Wikitravel: Mount Sinai
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Photo album from Mount Sinai and St Catherine's
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Category:Mountains of Egypt Sinai
Category:Torah places
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