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TIL about St Catherine's Monastery at Mt Sinai in Egypt. Built (548 - 565AD) by order of Byzantine emperor Justinian I, to enclose the area of the Burning Bush seen by Moses. It is the oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. Also contains the oldest continually operating library.

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