Christian & Mohamedan chapels on the Summit of Sinai Feby 20th 1839

Painting drawn at the summit of Gebel Musa (Biblical Mount Sinai), with mostly imaginative mountain landscape for the distribution and shape of the surrounding summits and showing the church and mosque on the summit in the centre. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
The contemporary church of the Holy Trinity and Cleft of the Rock on the summit of Mount Sinai was built (re-constructed) in 1934 CE at the site and from the ruins of four earlier churches, including Julian Saba's first church on the summit in 363 CE, Justinian's church in 6th century CE, a mid-late medieval church, and the fourth church visible in the photograph. There is a mosque which was built from the same ruins to the southeast of the church and above the traditional site of moses rock cave of the 40 days and nights, in addition to inscriptions by pilgrims and travellers scattered on the summit. The ring dyke (the ring of fire) is a volcanic mountain chain which encircles the northern half of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula and acts as a natural boundary with the surrounding uplands, where several mountain passes are used as natural gateways. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Illus. in: The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt and Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1842-1845, v. 3, pts. 19-20, p. 1.
Surrogate reference copy available in: The Holy Land / David Roberts. Tel-Aviv, Israel : Terra Sancta Arts, 1982, v. 5, pl. 110, p. 28.
Tooley, no. 112