ʾAzazo Takla Hāymānot
Francesca Panini
Names
normalized: ʾAzazo Takla Hāymānot↗ አዘዞ፡ ተክለ፡ ሃይማኖት፡↗ normalized: ʾAzazo za-Dabra Libānos↗ alt: አዘዞ፡ ዘደብረ፡ ሊባኖስ፡↗ Gondar↗ ʾAzazo↗ Gondar↗ Dabra Libānos↗ Ṭānā↗ Dabra Libānos↗ ʾAzazo↗ Dabra Libānos↗ Dabra Libānos↗ ʾAzazo↗
አዘዞ፡ ተክለ፡ ሃይማኖት፡gez
alt: አዘዞ፡ ዘደብረ፡ ሊባኖስ፡gez
General information
description: ʾAzazo Takla Hāymānot is located at the centre of a hilltop, surrounded by a courtyard and a circular stone wall with a square tower.
Foundation date
17th-18th century?
Foundation story
Local priests believe that it was built by ʾaṣe role: title Fāsiladas↗ in the 17th century, while, according to James Bruce↗ , it was built by ʾIyāsu II↗ , meaning it was built only in the 18th century.
History
history: ʾAzazo Takla Hāymānot is one of the so-called 44 churches of Gondar↗ . It is located in the town of ʾAzazo↗ , 13 km southwest of Gondar↗ . This church played an important role in the history of Ethiopian monasticism: following the burning of Dabra Libānos↗ in 1532 and the decision to move the monastic community north in the lake Ṭānā↗ area, the monastic community of Dabra Libānos↗ finally settled in ʾAzazo↗ .
Tābots
tabot: At one hand of the courtyard, there is a semi-circular domed castle where, according to local tradition, the tābot of Mary↗ of Dabra Libānos↗ was first installed when it was moved from Dabra Libānos↗ to ʾAzazo↗ , although the tābot's movements are actually quite complicated to reconstruct.
Secondary Bibliography
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Berry, L. B., J. Quirin, and D. Crummey 2005. ‘Gondär’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, II (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 838a–848a.
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Mulatu Wubneh 2003. ‘Azäzo Täklä Haymanot’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 416b–418a.
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Mulatu Wubneh 2003. ‘Azäzo’, in S. Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, I (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003), 415b–416b.
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t:country | ኢትዮጵያ |
regional state | ʾAmharā kǝllǝl |
province | በጌምድር |
zone | Samen Gondar |
town | ʾAzazo |
Coordinates | 12.5500 37.4333 |
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