Egypt
- St. Catherine's Monastery Seeks Permanence Through Technology
Egypt Independent (James Purtill) St. Catherine’s Monastery is going digital. The monastery that claims to be the oldest in the world — not destroyed, not abandoned in 17 centuries — has begun digitizing its ancient manuscripts for the use of...
- Restoration Of St Catherine's Mosaic
These are snippets from the Egyptian Gazette - I had forgotten when I found them, yesterday, that the EG doesn't archive its past news items, so I'm afraid that the URLs are no longer valid. If you click on them, another story entirely comes up....
- Conserving The Deir Al-surian Library
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/824/he1.htm"The Coptic monastery known as Deir Al-Surian, or the Monastery of the Syrians, contains more than 3,000 books as well as a vast number of texts in Syriac, Aramaic (the language of Christ), Coptic, Arabic and...
- Exhibition: Coptic Icons From Sinai
http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=9885_0_1_0_M A reminder that Coptic exhibits from Sinai's St Catherine's Monastery are currently touring the U.S.: "Saint Catherine Coptic artifacts to be displayed in USPrime Minister Ahmed Nazif approved...
- The Restoration Of St. Anthony's Monastery
The eight year restoration of the 1600 year old Christian monastery St. Anthony's has recently been completed. The restorations to the monastery have been extensive including a tower, two churches and the monks quarters. The monastery was founded...
Egypt
Restoration of St Catherine's Monastery
Ahram Online (Nevine El-Aref)
With photos.
With photos.
After six months of feasibility studies, the library at St. Catherine's Monastery in the southern Sinai Peninsula will be restored and developed to meet international standards.
According to Minister of State for Antiquities Mohamed Ibrahim, the project will be implemented in two phases and will include the restoration of the library's eastern and western sections.
The library contains some 3,500 manuscripts in the Greco-Roman, Coptic, Arabic, Hebrew, Georgian, Syrian, Armenian and Udi languages, as well as numerous rare icons and other liturgical objects. It also houses a collection of decrees and regulations issued by the Muslim Caliph of the time, intended to ensure the security of the monastery's Christian population.
The restoration project is being financed by the monastery and carried out under the supervision of the Ministry of State for Antiquities (MSA).
- St. Catherine's Monastery Seeks Permanence Through Technology
Egypt Independent (James Purtill) St. Catherine’s Monastery is going digital. The monastery that claims to be the oldest in the world — not destroyed, not abandoned in 17 centuries — has begun digitizing its ancient manuscripts for the use of...
- Restoration Of St Catherine's Mosaic
These are snippets from the Egyptian Gazette - I had forgotten when I found them, yesterday, that the EG doesn't archive its past news items, so I'm afraid that the URLs are no longer valid. If you click on them, another story entirely comes up....
- Conserving The Deir Al-surian Library
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/824/he1.htm"The Coptic monastery known as Deir Al-Surian, or the Monastery of the Syrians, contains more than 3,000 books as well as a vast number of texts in Syriac, Aramaic (the language of Christ), Coptic, Arabic and...
- Exhibition: Coptic Icons From Sinai
http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=9885_0_1_0_M A reminder that Coptic exhibits from Sinai's St Catherine's Monastery are currently touring the U.S.: "Saint Catherine Coptic artifacts to be displayed in USPrime Minister Ahmed Nazif approved...
- The Restoration Of St. Anthony's Monastery
The eight year restoration of the 1600 year old Christian monastery St. Anthony's has recently been completed. The restorations to the monastery have been extensive including a tower, two churches and the monks quarters. The monastery was founded...