Wooden roof beams from the church of St. Catherine The monastery church has a fully-preserved sixth-century wooden roof supported by wooden trusses. The wood was probably imported from Egypt. The beams of the church are decorated in high relief, evocative of Early Christian Egyptian woodcarvings. The Nilotic landscapes, animals, and plants seen on these beams were also used in Egyptian decorative woodcarving 
The main church of the monastery seen from the east The church is one of the best-preserved buildings from the sixth century. Its apse is shown here in the mid-foreground, flanked by two domed chapels. The shed roof between the two chapels covers another more recent chapel that encloses the original small garden where the Burning Bush once stood. 
Kurt Weitzmann (1904-1993) Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, 1945-1972 
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