According to Al-Ahram, St. Catherine's Monastery remains the only site in the Sinai Peninsula declared a UNESCO World ...

Saint Catherine's Monastery at the foot of Mount Sinai, Egypt is one of the most important Christian monasteries in the world ...

A ruling by an Egyptian court transferring ownership of one of the world s oldest monasteries to the state has provoked ...

Although we know it is probably older, documentary information about this library first appears in 1148. It was founded as a monastic library, survived the calamitous years of the Revolution ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

which houses the largest monastic library in the world. The Admont Abbey Library is significant for more than books, however: ...

Egypt reopened on Saturday an ancient library that holds thousands of centuries-old religious and historical manuscripts at the famed St. Catherine Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site ...

One of the painted wood sculptures at Wiblingen monastery library. Except, only the ceiling fresco and the floors are as you see them. The rest is just painted wood. Just, however, is an awfully ...

Its gilded shelves are said to have inspired one of Disney's best-loved classics. This library could give Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel a run for its money with its beauty – and won't require a ...

the oldest library in Switzerland, has ornate bookshelves and intricate mural ceilings. At the monastic Library of St. Walburga, in the Netherlands, manuscripts are still chained to desks ...

The Syriac Orthodox Christians of Mar Matti, a monastery that dates back to the 4th century, moved to rescue their library of around 80 manuscripts in August, at the height of the ISIS blitz ...