Jesus Christ, Pantokrator

Located at the foot of Gebel Musa, on Egypt's Sinai peninsula, Saint Katherine's is the oldest, continuously inhabited Christian monastery in the world. During the Jewish exodus from Egypt and according to the Old Testament, God gave Moses the Ten Commandments on the peak of Gebel Musa (the mountain is better known as Mt. Sinai in the west). Monastic history here dates back to the 3rd century. While the region's Christians have suffered persecution throughout the ages, the monastery has never been destroyed, nor abandoned in its 17 centuries of history. St. Katherine's Monastery is home to thousands of Christian icons, markedly the world's most important collection. The most famous icon here is the 6th century encaustic icon of Christ Pantokrator (a Greek term which means 'Christ, the ruler of all').

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