Similar
![To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The monk-artist [Monastery of St. Catherine].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDAvMDEvMDEvdG8tc2luYWktdmlhLXRoZS1yZWQtc2VhLXRvci1hbmQtd2FkeS1oZWJyYW4tdGhlLW1vbmstYXJ0aXN0LW1vbmFzdGVyeS1vZi1zdC02NDAuanBn/40/29/webp "To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The monk-artist [Monastery of St. Catherine].")
Related
![To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Monastery of St. Katherine [i.e., Monastery of St. Catherine] from the east.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDAvMDEvMDEvdG8tc2luYWktdmlhLXRoZS1yZWQtc2VhLXRvci1hbmQtd2FkeS1oZWJyYW4tbW9uYXN0ZXJ5LW9mLXN0LWthdGhlcmluZS1pZS1tb25hc3RlcnktMy02NDAuanBn/40/29/webp "To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Monastery of St. Katherine [i.e., Monastery of St. Catherine] from the east.")
![To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Young monks [Monastery of St. Catherine].](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5MDAvMDEvMDEvdG8tc2luYWktdmlhLXRoZS1yZWQtc2VhLXRvci1hbmQtd2FkeS1oZWJyYW4teW91bmctbW9ua3MtbW9uYXN0ZXJ5LW9mLXN0LWNhdGhlcmluZS0xLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/29/webp "To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Young monks [Monastery of St. Catherine].")
To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The monk-artist Monastery of St. Catherine
Summary
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?].
Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers.
Date from Matson LOT cards.
Photograph taken from in front of one of the numerous chapels inside Saint Catherine Monastery or the door of the library of ancient manuscripts(?). (A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
An estimate of 530 to 600 monks lived in the monastic settlements across the mountain range at the height of monasticism in 4th-7th centuries CE, where less than 100 monks lived inside Saint Catherine Monastery on its construction between 530 and 545 CE by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527-565 CE) (Uzi Dahari, 2000). John Climax the Syrian hermit of Mount Sinai and later Igumen (Abbot) of Saint Catherine Monastery, also known as John of the Ladder and John Sinaites (525-March 30, 606 CE), wrote the 'Ladder of the Divine Ascent' of the 30 steps around 600 CE [580-603 CE (?)]. The number of monks ranged between 300 and 400 monks in 1000-1336 CE and has remained below 50 monks since 1700 CE (Joseph Hobbs), and is around 25 monks in early 21st century CE. The monks dress the full ceremonial garments in major feasts, e.g. Easter, Saint Catherine on November the 25th, etc. Saint Catherine Monastery was constructed between 530 and 545 CE by the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527-565 CE). Several inscriptions were found on the wooden beams of Justinian's basilica from 6th century (547-565 CE). The monastery is famous for its numerous chapels, other than the basilica and its side chapels: "Besides this church and these chapels, there are seventeen other little churches or chapels situated here and there in the convent: 1. that of St Peter and St Paul, which is tolerably large and roomy; 2. St George; 3. St Stephen; 4. St Michael the Archangel; 5. St Basil, Gregory and Chrysostome; 6. Demetrius the martyr; 7. St Nicholas; 8. St Mosses and Aaron; 9. St Sergius Wachas; 10. St John Baptist; 11. St Anthony the abbot; 12. of the five martyrs Eustratius, Euxendius, Barbarius, Orestus and Eugenius; 13. St John the Evangelist; 14. St Catherine; 15. and 16. two Episcopal chapels; 17. one in the garden where the friars are buried." (The Prefetto of Egypt, 1722) (A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection is a source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine (present-day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946. Most of the Library of Congress collection consists of over 23,000 glass and film photographic negatives and transparencies created by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor firm, the Matson Photo Service. The American Colony Photo Department in Jerusalem was one of several photo services operating in the Middle East before 1900. Catering primarily to the tourist trade, the American Colony and its competitors photographed holy sites, often including costumed actors recreating Biblical scenes. The firm’s photographers were residents of Palestine with knowledge of the land and people that gave them an advantage and made their coverage intimate and comprehensive. They documented Middle East culture, history, and political events from before World War I through the collapse of Ottoman rule, the British Mandate period, World War II, and the emergence of the State of Israel. The Matson Collection also includes images of people and locations in present-day Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey. Additionally, the firm produced photographs from an East African trip. The collection came to the Library of Congress between 1966 and 1981, through a series of gifts made by Eric Matson and his beneficiary, the Home for the Aged of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Los Angeles (now called the Kensington Episcopal Home).
Tags
Date
Location
Source
Copyright info
