Plate 1Alte Kathedrale Maryam Sion in ihrer heutigen Form im frühen Gonder-Stil (Kaiser Fasilides 1632 - 1667). Die ursprüngliche Kathedrale im aksumitischen Stil umfasste den gesamten Sockel, auf den die Freitreppe hinauf führt.
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17th century (rebuilt under Emperor Fasilides) · Aksum · Tigray · Ethiopia
Medieval · architecture
What the record shows
The old cathedral of Maryam Tsion at Aksum, rebuilt in Gondarine style on the podium of Ethiopia's first great church; the traditional sanctuary of the Ark of the Covenant stands in its precinct.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
Old Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, Aksum
The old cathedral of Maryam Tsion at Aksum, rebuilt in Gondarine style on the podium of Ethiopia's first great church; the traditional sanctuary of the Ark of the Covenant stands in its precinct.
Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion
Ancient church in Axum, claimed location of the Ark of the Covenant. Dated 1964.
Old Maryam Tsion Cathedral and compound, Aksum
Aksum, Maryam Tsion, view of the cathedral compound looking southeast from the top of the modern bell-tower, 1994. In the centre is the seventeenth-century Old Cathedral, standing on a podium of Aksumite origin.
Place
Aksum · Tigray · Ethiopia
Date
17th century (rebuilt under Emperor Fasilides)
Structure or site
Architecture & ruins
Cited from
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 28, fig. 34. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 43; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
