What the record shows
Wukro Chirkos, a semi-monolithic rock-hewn church standing at the edge of Wukro town, its cruciform plan and carved ceilings characteristic of the Tigray group.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- Wukro Chirkos Church
Wukro Chirkos, a semi-monolithic rock-hewn church standing at the edge of Wukro town, its cruciform plan and carved ceilings characteristic of the Tigray group.
- Wukro Chirkos 03
Wukro Chirkos Church, Wukro, Ethiopia
- Wukro Chirkos Church
Tcherqos Wukro, the eastern side of the south ‘transept’, 2006. The damage by fire is traditionally attributed to the sixteenth century.
- Place
- Wukro · Tigray · Ethiopia
- Date
- Not recorded in the catalogue
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Cited from
- David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 96, fig. 134. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 111; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
