Mount Sinai

Mount Sinai is in the middle of the Peninsula, and rises 2,285 metres above sea level. The mountain is a sacred site for Jews, Christians and Muslims.
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,285 metres
  • Description: mountain in the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt
  • Also known as: “Djebel Moussa”, “Gebel Mousa”, “Gebel Mūsa”, “Jabal Mūsá”, “Jebel Mousa”, “Jebel Musa”, “Mount Horeb”, “Mount of Moses”, “Mountain of the Law”, and “جبل طور سيناء”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St Catherine’s Monastery.

Locality
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Catherine's Monastery, officially the Sacred Autonomous Royal Monastery of Saint Catherine of the Holy and God-Trodden Mount Sinai, is a Christian monastery located in the of .

Mount Sinai

Latitude
28.5388° or 28° 32′ 20″ north
Longitude
33.9752° or 33° 58′ 31″ east
Elevation
2,285 metres (7,497 feet)
Open location code
7GWMGXQG+G3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 329996453
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
351820
Wiki­data ID
Q377485
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yiddish—“Mount Sinai” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Thursina”
  • Albanian: “Mali Sinai”
  • Arabic: “جبل الله حوريب”
  • Arabic: “جبل سيناء”
  • Arabic: “جبل موسى”
  • Arabic: “طور سيناء”
  • Arabic: “طور سينين”
  • Armenian: “Սինայ”
  • Asturian: “monte Sinai”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sina dağı”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sinay dağı”
  • Basque: “Sinai mendia”
  • Belarusian: “Сінай”
  • Belarusian: “Сынай”
  • Bengali: “সিনাই পর্বত”
  • Bhojpuri: “सीनाई परबत”
  • Bosnian: “Sinajska gora”
  • Breton: “Menez Sinai”
  • Bulgarian: “Синай”
  • Catalan: “mont Sinaí”
  • Catalan: “Mont Sinaí”
  • Cebuano: “Jabal Musa”
  • Chinese: “西奈山”
  • Croatian: “Brdo Sinaj”
  • Czech: “hora Sinaj”
  • Czech: “Mojžíšova hora”
  • Czech: “Sinaj”
  • Danish: “Sinaibjerget”
  • Dutch: “Sinaïberg”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل موسى”
  • Esperanto: “Monto Sinajo”
  • Estonian: “Siinai mägi”
  • Finnish: “Siinainvuori”
  • Finnish: “Siinaivuori”
  • French: “mont Sinaï”
  • French: “Mont Sinaï”
  • Georgian: “სინის მთა”
  • German: “Berg Sinai”
  • German: “Moses-Berg”
  • German: “Mosesberg”
  • German: “Sinai”
  • Greek: “Όρος Σινά”
  • Greek: “Σινά”
  • Hebrew: “ג’בל מוסא”
  • Hebrew: “הר סיני”
  • Hindi: “माउण्ट सिनाई”
  • Hindi: “सीनाई पर्वत”
  • Hungarian: “Sínai-hegy”
  • Iban: “Bukit Sinai”
  • Igbo: “Jebel Musa”
  • Igbo: “Mount Horeb”
  • Igbo: “Mount Sinai”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Sinai”
  • Interlingua: “Monte Sinai”
  • Irish: “Sliabh Shíonáí”
  • Italian: “Gebel Musa”
  • Italian: “Jabal Musa”
  • Italian: “Monte Horeb”
  • Italian: “Monte Musa”
  • Italian: “Monte Oreb”
  • Italian: “Monte Sinai”
  • Italian: “Sinai”
  • Italian: “הר סיני‎”
  • Italian: “طور سيناء”
  • Japanese: “シナイ山”
  • Japanese: “ムーサー山”
  • Javanese: “Gunung Sinai”
  • Kazakh: “Синай”
  • Korean: “시나이산”
  • Ladin: “Mount Sinai”
  • Latin: “Mons Sinai”
  • Latvian: “Sīnājs”
  • Lithuanian: “Sinajaus kalnas”
  • Low German: “Sinai”
  • Macedonian: “Синајска Гора”
  • Malagasy: “Tendrombohitra Sinay”
  • Malay: “Gunung Sinai”
  • Malayalam: “സീനായ് മല”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sinai”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sinaifjellet”
  • Norwegian: “Sinai”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Mont Sinai”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܛܘܪܐ ܕܣܝܢܝ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡈࡅࡓࡀ ࡖࡎࡉࡍࡀࡉ”
  • Ossetian: “Синай”
  • Persian: “کوه سینا”
  • Polish: “Synaj”
  • Portuguese: “Jebel Muça”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Horebe”
  • Portuguese: “Monte Sinai”
  • Pushto: “سينا غر”
  • Romanian: “Muntele Sinai”
  • Russian: “гора Моисея”
  • Russian: “Гора Моисея”
  • Russian: “Синай”
  • Russian: “Хар-Синай”
  • Russian: “Хорив”
  • Serbian: “Синај”
  • Serbian: “Синајска гора”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sinajska gora”
  • Sinhala: “සයිනායි කන්ද”
  • Slovenian: “gora Sinaj”
  • Slovenian: “Sinaj”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سینا داغی”
  • Spanish: “Gebel Musa”
  • Spanish: “Jabal Musa”
  • Spanish: “Monte Horeb”
  • Spanish: “Monte Moisés”
  • Spanish: “Monte Sinai”
  • Spanish: “monte Sinaí”
  • Spanish: “Monte Sinaí”
  • Sundanese: “Gunung Sinai”
  • Swahili: “Sinai”
  • Swedish: “Sinai berg”
  • Swedish: “Sinaiberget”
  • Tagalog: “Bundok ng Sinai”
  • Tamil: “சினாய் மலை”
  • Telugu: “సీనాయి పర్వతం”
  • Thai: “ภูเขาซีนาย”
  • Turkish: “Sina Dağı”
  • Ukrainian: “Синай”
  • Ukrainian: “Сінай”
  • Urdu: “کوہ سیناء”
  • Urdu: “کوہ طور”
  • Venetian: “Monte Sinai”
  • Vietnamese: “Núi Sinai”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bukid Sinai”
  • Welsh: “Mynydd Sinai”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوہ سیناء”
  • Wu Chinese: “西奈山”
  • Yiddish: “הר סיני”
  • “सीनाई परबत”

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