The Saint Catherine Foundation raises funds and awareness for the essential works needed to conserve, preserve, study and share the unique heritage offered by Saint Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, Egypt. The Monastery is home to one of the most important collections of Christian manuscripts in the world, second in historical and spiritual significance only to that of the Vatican. 

The Monastery sits on the slopes of Mount Sinai protecting the library and its collection of manuscripts. The manuscripts offer unrivalled insights into the life and the faiths that coexisted within the Monastery walls for centuries. They reveal important information about the movement of people and ideas from Late Antiquity to the modern era and provide unrivalled evidence of the development of religious literature and the languages, some still spoken, others extinct, in which these texts were written.