What is Mount Sinai?
{{Infobox mountain | name = Mount Sinai | native_name = {{lang|ar|طُوْر سِيْنَاء|Ṭūr Sīnāʾ}} | native_name_lang = ar | other_name = {{lang-arz|جَبَل مُوسَىٰ|Gabal Mūsā}}<br/>{{lang-ar|جَبَل مُوْسَى|Jabal Mūsā}}<br/>{{lang-syc|ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ}} {{lang|syc|Ṭūrāʾ Dsyny}}<br/>{{lang-grc|Ὄρος Σινά}}<br/>{{lang-la|Mons Sinai}} | coordinates = {{coord|28|32|21.9|N|33|58|31.5|E|type:landmark_region:EG|display=inline,title}} | photo = Mount Moses.jpg | photo_caption = The summit of Mount Sinai | photo_size = | elevation_m = 2,285 | elevation_ref = | location = [[South Sinai Governorate|Sinai]], [[Asia]]n part of [[Egypt]] | map = Egypt }} '''Mount Sinai''' ({{lang-he |הר סיני}} ''Har Sinai''; [[Aramaic]]: ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ ''Ṭūrāʾ Dsyny''), also known as '''Jabal Musa''' ({{lang-ar|جَبَل مُوسَىٰ}}, translation: Mount Moses), is a [[mountain]] on the [[Sinai Peninsula]] of [[Egypt]]. It is possibly the place where [[Moses]] was given the [[Ten Commandments]], according to the [[Torah]], [[Bible]], and [[Quran]], . It is a {{convert|2285|m|ft|adj=on}} high [[mountain]] near the [[city]] of [[Saint Catherine, Egypt|Saint Catherine]] in the region known today as the [[Sinai Peninsula]]. The mountain is surrounded on all sides by higher peaks in its [[mountain range]]. It is next to [[Mount Catherine]] which, at {{convert|2629|m|ft|abbr=on|disp=or}}, is the highest peak in [[Egypt]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allsinai.info/sites/geology.htm|publisher=AllSinai.info|title=Sinai Geology|access-date=2006-08-29|archive-date=2011-07-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718210550/http://www.allsinai.info/sites/geology.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Sinai}} [[Category:Mountains of Asia]]<!-- Sinai peninsula is in the Asian part of Egypt, not African --> [[Category:South Sinai Governorate]] [[Category:Bible]] [[Category:Quran]] [[Category:Hebrew Bible]] {{multistub|geo|asia}}