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The oldest library in world

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Farjana Diba:
The world’s oldest library is the oldest continually running library in the world is at the St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai, Egypt. It was built in the middle of the 6th century and houses the second largest collection of religious material in the world (after the Vatican). It is not accessible to the public, only by monks and invited scholars.

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