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| Phone: + (203) 4839999 - Ext: 1573 and 1574<br> | | Phone: + (203) 4839999 - Ext: 1573 and 1574<br> |
| E-mail: visits@bibalex.org<br>
| | Email: visits@bibalex.org<br> |
| [https://www.bibalex.org/en/ Website]<br> | | [https://www.bibalex.org/en/ Website]<br> |
| [https://www.bibalex.org/en/Page/BA_Visiting?Keywords= Visit guidelines]<br> | | [https://www.bibalex.org/en/Page/BA_Visiting?Keywords= Visit guidelines]<br> |
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| Phonr, Mount Sinai Foundation: +30 210 6454 923<br> | | Phonr, Mount Sinai Foundation: +30 210 6454 923<br> |
| Fax: +20 69 3470 341 & 3<br> | | Fax: +20 69 3470 341 & 3<br> |
| E-mail: sinaimonastery@gmail.com<br>
| | Email: sinaimonastery@gmail.com<br> |
| [http://www.sinaimonastery.com/index.php/en/library Website] | | [http://www.sinaimonastery.com/index.php/en/library Website] |
| ::The library, founded sometime between 548 and 565, is the oldest continuously operating library in the world. The monastery library preserves the second largest collection of early codices and manuscripts in the world, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library. It contains Greek, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Syriac, Coptic, Georgian, Arabic, Ethiopic/Ge‘ez, Latin, Armenian, Church Slavonic, and Caucasian Albanian manuscripts and books. It also contains some very rare Hebrew Language books.<ref>"Saint Catherine's Monastery", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery, accessed 2 December 2022.</ref> | | ::The library, founded sometime between 548 and 565, is the oldest continuously operating library in the world. The monastery library preserves the second largest collection of early codices and manuscripts in the world, outnumbered only by the Vatican Library. It contains Greek, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Syriac, Coptic, Georgian, Arabic, Ethiopic/Ge‘ez, Latin, Armenian, Church Slavonic, and Caucasian Albanian manuscripts and books. It also contains some very rare Hebrew Language books.<ref>"Saint Catherine's Monastery", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Catherine%27s_Monastery, accessed 2 December 2022.</ref> |