What the record shows
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.
Source record notes
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- Debre Damo Monastery
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.
- Debre Damo
Flat-topped mountain, or amba, and a 6th-century monastery in northern Ethiopia. In Tigray Province dated 501.
- Inside the oldest house of Ethiopia 2
Inside the oldest house of Ethiopia 2. Catalogued on Wikimedia Commons under Debre Damo. The file description records: Inside the main building of the monastery of Debre Damo. This may be the last building with features from the old Aksumite kingdom. Its structure is said to be earthquake-proof. Photograph credited to Fabian Lambeck.
- Debre Damo Monastery and Large Church
Distant view of the Debra Damo amba, 1993.
- Place
- Debre Damo · Tigray · Ethiopia
- Date
- 6th century (traditional foundation, reign of Gebre Meskel)
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Cited from
- 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.