What the record shows
The monastery of Debre Libanos on the edge of the Jemma gorge north of Addis Ababa, founded by Abuna Tekle Haymanot and the principal monastery of Shewa; the present church was built for Emperor Haile Selassie in the 1960s.
Source record notes
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- Debre Libanos Monastery
The monastery of Debre Libanos on the edge of the Jemma gorge north of Addis Ababa, founded by Abuna Tekle Haymanot and the principal monastery of Shewa; the present church was built for Emperor Haile Selassie in the 1960s.
- Debre Libanos
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo monastery in Ethiopia. In Addis Ababa dated 1284.
- Place
- Debre Libanos · Oromia · Ethiopia
- Date
- monastery founded in the 13th century; present church 1960s
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Holding
- Wikimedia Commons
