Great Transfiguration News Today

The head of the Sinai Reconstruction Authority, Mohsen Saeed, announced that a Peace Square project will be part of the state's ‘Great Transfiguration’ project to develop the St. Catherine area into a spiritual tourism destination.

Restoring the previously neglected monuments in the Sinai in one way to revitalize tourism, especially religious tourism.

CAIRO: Egypt is preparing to open one of the largest religious projects in the world, the “Great Transfiguration,” in the governorate of South Sinai, Gov. Maj. Gen. Khaled Fouda has said. The area is a sacred site for the world’s three major monotheistic religions and includes Saint Catherine’s Monastery as well as Mount Sinai, where, according to the Bible, God spoke to Moses.

The Sisi government has grand plans to transform a Unesco-listed World Heritage Site, but locals watch the construction works with unease