Debre Libanos

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landingPages.LANDING_PAGE.DETAIL.LOCATIONOromia, Etiopia

Debre Libanos is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo monastery, lying northwest of Addis Ababa in the North Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region. It was founded in 1284 by Saint Tekle Haymanot as Debre Atsbo and was renamed as Debre Libanos in the 15th century. He meditated in a cave above the current monastery for 29 years. The monastery's chief abbot, called the Ichege, was the second most powerful official in the Ethiopian Church after the Abuna.

The monastery complex sits on a terrace between a cliff and the gorge of one of the tributaries of the Abbay River. None of the original buildings of Debre Libanos survive, although David Buxton suspected "there are interesting things still to be found among the neighbouring cliffs".

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Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debre_Libanos

landingPages.LANDING_PAGE.DETAIL.ADDRESS Ethiopia

landingPages.LANDING_PAGE.DETAIL.COORDINATES 9°42'43.343" N 38°50'51.264" E

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