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Old Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, Aksum

Aksum, Tigray, Ethiopia

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.
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.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 28, fig. 34.
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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. 28, fig. 34.
Subject date
17th century (rebuilt under Emperor Fasilides)
Type
architectural plate

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Place metadata retained from the reviewed Architecture catalogue; source wording: Aksum, Ethiopia. No camera position supplied.

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