Local life outside St. Catherine's Monastery in the rocky mass of Sinai.

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Two Bedouin leading their camel pass by the outer wall of the Saint Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai desert. The monastery houses the church of the Transfiguration and the chapel of Saint Triphone in which is the carnel house for the Monastery, housing thousands of skulls and bones of the Monks who lived,prayed and died in the monastery. The monastery is the smallest and oldest Christian diocese in the world.

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Location: Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai
Photo credit: © Jim Tampin / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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