Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt: A Photographic Essay

by Helen C. Evans

Book Overview

The Holy Monastery of St. Catherine, situated among the mountains of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, is the oldest continuously active monastery in the world. Recorded as a Christian pilgrimage site as... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588391108
• ISBN13: 9781588391100
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

St. Catherine's Monastery , Sinai

This is an excellent photographic essay on the monastery - a must-have to remind you of an exciting visit or to prompt you into visiting Sinai very soon. Both the photographs and the essay are of first class standard. And of course the author and photographer had access to parts not available to ordinary visitors which makes the book even more valuable. As a constant reminder of a once-in-a-life-time adventure I cannot recommend it enough.

/St. Catherine's Monastery

This book is a compliment to the catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition BYZANTIUM: FAITH AND POWER (1261 - 1667) and especially to the exhibition itself. For lovers of icons this was a must see exhibition and if you were not fortunate enough to see it in person, the catalogue, accompanied by SAINT CATHERINE'S MONASTERY, SINAI, EQYPT: A PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY would more than suffice.