Abba Pentalewon Monastery, Aksum

Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia

Aksum, Abba Pantaleon, view from the southwest, 2008. The monastery church — a twentieth-century replacement of an ancient structure — surmounts the rock pinnacle.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 42, fig. 52.

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Place: Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia
Source: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009)
Book: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries
Source reference: p. 42, fig. 52.
Subject date: 6th century (traditional foundation by Abba Pentalewon); present church later
Type: architectural plate

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