Mount Sinai
Mount Sinai is in the middle of the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt and rises 2,285 metres above sea level. The mountains is a sacred site for Jews, Christians and Muslims.Photo: M mousa 86, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Localities in the Area
St Catherine's Monastery
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Catherine's Monastery, officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt.
Mount Sinai
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,285 metres
- Description: mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt
- Categories: mountain, tourism, tourist attraction and landform
- Location: South Sinai, Sinai, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
28.5388° or 28° 32' 20" northLongitude
33.9752° or 33° 58' 31" eastElevation
2,285 metres (7,497 feet)Open Location Code
7GWMGXQG+G3OpenStreetMap ID
node 329996453OpenStreetMap Feature
natural=peakOpenStreetMap Feature
tourism=attractionGeoNames ID
351820Wikidata ID
Q377485Mount Sinai Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Achinese: Thursina
- Albanian: Mali Sinai
- Arabic: Bukid Sinai
- Arabic: جبل الله حوريب
- Arabic: جبل سيناء
- Arabic: جبل موسى
- Arabic: طور سيناء
- Arabic: طور سينين
- Armenian: Սինայ
- Asturian: monte Sinai
- Azerbaijani: Sina dağı
- Azerbaijani: Sinay dağı
- Basque: Sinai mendia
- Belarusian: Гара Сінай
- Belarusian: Сынай
- Belarusian: Сінай
- Bengali: সিনাই পর্বত
- Bhojpuri: सीनाई परबत
- Bosnian: Sinajska gora
- Breton: Menez Sinai
- Bulgarian: Синай
- Catalan: Mont Sinaí
- Catalan: mont Sinaí
- Cebuano: Jabal Musa
- Chinese: 西奈山
- Croatian: Brdo Sinaj
- Czech: Mojžíšova hora
- Czech: Sinaj
- Danish: Sinaibjerget
- Dutch: Sinaïberg
- Egyptian Arabic: جبل موسى
- English: Djebel Moussa
- English: Gebel Mousa
- English: Jebel Musa
- English: Mount Horeb
- English: Mount of Moses
- Esperanto: Monto Sinajo
- Estonian: Siinai mägi
- Finnish: Siinaivuori
- French: Mont Sinaï
- French: mont Sinaï
- Georgian: სინის მთა
- German: Berg Sinai
- German: Moses-Berg
- German: Mosesberg
- German: Sinai
- Greek: Όρος Σινά
- Greek: Σινά
- Hebrew: ג'בל מוסא
- Hebrew: הר סיני
- Hindi: माउण्ट सिनाई
- Hindi: सीनाई पर्वत
- Hungarian: Sínai-hegy
- Igbo: Jebel Musa
- Igbo: Mount Horeb
- Igbo: Mount Sinai
- Indonesian: Gunung Sinai
- Interlingua: Monte Sinai
- Irish: Sliabh Shíonáí
- Italian: Gebel Musa
- Italian: Jabal Musa
- Italian: Monte Horeb
- Italian: Monte Musa
- Italian: Monte Oreb
- Italian: Monte Sinai
- Italian: Sinai
- Italian: הר סיני
- Italian: طور سيناء
- Japanese: シナイ山
- Javanese: Gunung Sinai
- Kazakh: Синай
- Korean: 시나이산
- Ladin: Mount Sinai
- Latin: Mons Sinai
- Latvian: Sīnājs
- Lithuanian: Sinajaus kalnas
- Low German: Sinai
- Macedonian: Синајска Гора
- Malagasy: Tendrombohitra Sinay
- Malay: Gunung Sinai
- Malayalam: സീനായ് മല
- Norwegian: Sinai
- Norwegian Bokmål: Sinai
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Sinaifjellet
- Occitan (post 1500): Mont Sinai
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): ࡈࡅࡓࡀ ࡖࡎࡉࡍࡀࡉ
- Persian: کوه سینا
- Polish: Synaj
- Portuguese: Jebel Muça
- Portuguese: Monte Horebe
- Portuguese: Monte Sinai
- Pushto: سينا غر
- Romanian: Muntele Sinai
- Russian: Гора Моисея
- Russian: Синай
- Russian: Хар-Синай
- Russian: Хорив
- Russian: гора Моисея
- Serbian: Синај
- Serbian: Синајска гора
- Serbo-Croatian: Sinajska gora
- Slovenian: Sinaj
- Slovenian: gora Sinaj
- South Azerbaijani: سینا داغی
- Spanish: Gebel Musa
- Spanish: Jabal Musa
- Spanish: Monte Horeb
- Spanish: Monte Moisés
- Spanish: Monte Sinai
- Spanish: Monte Sinaí
- Spanish: monte Sinaí
- Sundanese: Gunung Sinai
- Swahili: Sinai
- Swedish: Sinai berg
- Swedish: Sinaiberget
- Tagalog: Bundok ng Sinai
- Tamil: சினாய் மலை
- Telugu: సీనాయి పర్వతం
- Thai: ภูเขาซีนาย
- Turkish: Sina Dağı
- Ukrainian: Сінай
- Urdu: کوہ سیناء
- Urdu: کوہ طور
- Venetian: Monte Sinai
- Vietnamese: Núi Sinai
- Waray (Philippines): Bukid Sinai
- Welsh: Mynydd Sinai
- Western Panjabi: کوہ سیناء
- Wu Chinese: 西奈山
- Yiddish: הר סיני
- Gebel Mūsa
- Jabal Mūsá
- Jebel Mousa
- Mountain of the Law
- Siinainvuori
- جبل طور سيناء
Other Places Named Mount Sinai
Localities in the Area
- Farsh EliasHamlet
- Deir Al ArbainLocality
- El Arbaeen ValleyLocality
- Saint CatherineNeighbourhood
- Mont Sina EcolodgeVillage
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