Egypt Plans Mega Tourism City Near St. Catherine Monastery in Sinai

Great Transfiguration: Egypt plans a mega tourer metropolis adjacent St. Catherine’s Monastery successful Sinai. Credit: Gerhard Plezinger Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0

The country astir the historical Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai is to crook to a tourer city, according to completed plans of the Egyptian government. According to Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli, the improvement task is called the Great Transfiguration and includes an airport, hotels, services, restaurants, shops, a residential vicinity successful the surrounding country of the monastery.

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Developing the “Great Transfiguration” tract connected the Land of Peace is simply a elephantine nationalist project… pic.twitter.com/8BjjkyiEuT

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The 15-centuries-old Christian monastery connected Mount Sinai is simply a UNESCO World Heritage Site and hosts a immense postulation of important aged manuscripts, equivalent to that of the Vatican.

On Wednesday, an Egyptian tribunal characterized the country astir the monastery arsenic onshore that belongs to the Egyptian authorities since determination are nary ownership documents successful regards to the wide area.

The tribunal determination had the Greek Orthodox Church and the Greek authorities respond arsenic the monastery presumption had been protected since it was built betwixt 548 and 565 CE and is the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery.

The absorption was caused due to the fact that the Greek authorities and Church authorities assumed that Wednesday’s tribunal determination meant that the Holy Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai volition walk to the Egyptian State and the monks volition beryllium evicted. A Greek delegation is to alert to Egypt connected Monday to sermon the issue.

The Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the menace to the monastery is simply a rumor. A spokesperson stated that, “The Monastery of Saint Catherine and its historical sites stay wholly unaffected. Its spiritual and archaeological significance, on with its cemetery, stay afloat intact.”

“The Great Transfiguration”

On March 10, Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli wrote connected the contented of the Mount Sinai task successful the country’s State Information Service. He emphasized that the improvement of “The Great Transfiguration task tract connected the onshore of bid volition beryllium Egypt’s acquisition to the full satellite and each religions. It volition go a magnificent destination for each visitors, whether for religious, recreational, oregon biology purposes.”

He wrote that the Egyptian state, represented by President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, and the government, “was keen connected processing this country and implementing a task that is, by each standards, a planetary project” that would marque the country a tourer destination. He called the tract “Above the Land of Peace”

The Great Transfiguration Project successful St. Catherine pic.twitter.com/orzvi7CmaF

— Sinuhe the Egyptian (@tonyfuo) September 18, 2024

Describing the tract astir the Greek Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai , the Egyptian premier curate described the country astir the Monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinaias “one of the holiest places connected earth, which has spiritual and humanities value for each humanity, with each its spectra and divine religions, namely the country of The Holy Valley, Mount Sinai, and the country of The Greatest Manifestation. This beatified and blessed constituent is the lone spot connected Earth wherever Allah Almighty manifested His noble look to Moses.”

At the aforesaid time, helium wrote, the country is designated arsenic a “natural reserve” by Egypt and complies with the UNESCO standards. This means that each infrastructure and constructions are made to comply with the earthy situation arsenic if they were portion of the landscape, each of them inspired by the archetypal place. The trees utilized successful the furnishings are olive trees, which are mentioned successful much than 1 spot successful the divine books, particularly successful the Holy Quran. In regards to the Greek Orthodox monastery of Saint Catherine of Sinai helium said that wrong is the celebrated Alliq histrion mentioned successful the divine books.