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944 31. building and architecture<br />

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Fig. 49 Kellia, laura monastery in the Nile delta built between the sixth and eighth century. Plan <strong>of</strong><br />

some <strong>of</strong> the 1600 walled units. (After Bridel (1986))<br />

In Palaestina Tertia, at the monastery <strong>of</strong> the Burning Bush (now<br />

St Catherine’s) on Mt Sinai, rebuilt and heavily fortified by Justinian, the<br />

sixth-century basilical church, still in use, has a chapel surrounding the<br />

Burning Bush situated behind the altar; but other, still-functioning monastic<br />

buildings there, such as the refectory and domestic quarters, date from<br />

various different periods. At another Palestinian monastery attached to a<br />

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