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Debre Damo Monastery

6th century (traditional foundation, reign of Gebre Meskel)Debre Damo, Ethiopia15 images

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the place where the founder of the monastery, Abuna Aregawi, went to heaven, is marked with this colourful hut — Plate 1the place where the founder of the monastery, Abuna Aregawi, went to heaven, is marked with this colourful hut
Fabian Lambeck · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons
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the place where the founder of the monastery, Abuna Aregawi, went to heaven, is marked with this colourful hut — the place where the founder of the monastery, Abuna Aregawi, went to heaven, is marked with this colourful hutFabian Lambeck · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia CommonsRightsCC BY-SA 4.0, as stated on the file's Wikimedia Commons record (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).
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The monastery of Debre Damo on its sheer-sided amba, reached only by rope; its main church is held to be the oldest standing built church in Ethiopia, in classic Aksumite wood-and-stone construction.

References

Wikimedia Commons category — Debre Damo
Wikimedia Commons — Abuna Aregawis place at Debre Damo
Wikimedia Commons — Přístup na Debre Damo
Wikidata Q595895 — Debre Damo
Wikimedia Commons — Inside the oldest house of Ethiopia 2
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 52, fig. 64. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 67; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 52, fig. 65. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 67; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 54, fig. 67. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 69; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 56, fig. 69. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 71; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 58, fig. 71. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 73; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 58, fig. 72. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 73; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 59, fig. 74. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 74; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 59, fig. 75. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 74; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 59, fig. 76. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 74; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 60, fig. 77. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 75; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 60, fig. 78. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 75; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.

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