Gunda Gundē Monastery

Established ca. 1452; burned soon thereafter on the order of Emperor Zar'a Ya'eqob; rebuilt; possibly burned again ca. 1458; rebuilt and then burned again during the reign of Emperor Na'od; rebuilt early 16th century

HMML ID
210313367594
PURL
https://w3id.org/haf/organization/210313367594
LC name
Gunda Gundé (Monastery : Ethiopia)
HMML name
Gunda Gundē Monastery
HMML native script
ጉንደ ፡ ጉንዴ
Library of Congress
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004083635
VIAF
https://viaf.org/viaf/125841733

Variants

  • Dabra Garizan
  • Dabra Garzen
  • Dabra Garzên
  • Dabra Garzēn
  • Dabra Gêrzên
  • Dabra Kaswâ
  • Dabra Kaswā
  • Debra Garzen
  • Däbrä Garzen
  • Däbrä Garzén

Organization information

Organization type
Monasteries
Foundation date
1452~
Centuries
15th century CE ● 16th century CE ● 17th century CE ● 18th century CE ● 19th century CE ● 20th century CE ● 21st century CE
Locations
Countries
Fields of activity

Organization relationships

Parent organizations

General notes

Description
Gundagundi; Gwǝndagwǝndi; Gwǝndagwǝndo; Däbrä Garzen; Däbrä Kaswa; Däbrä Kokäwa
Citations
Siegbert Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2, D-Ha (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 917-919.
Description
Käswa-Gundä Gunde; Däbrä Gärizan; Käswa; Däbrä Käswa; Gundä Gunde; Däbrä Gärzan; Gärizan; Däbrä Gärizan-Käswa
Citations
Roger Schneider, “Le couvent de Käswa-Gundä Gunde: Fondation, milieu, environnement,” Annales d’Éthiopie 26 (2011): 119-127, https://doi.org/10.3406/ethio.2011.1435.
Description
Gwǝndagwǝnde; Gundagunde
Citations
Getatchew Haile, The Gǝ‘ǝz Acts of Abba Ǝsṭifanos of Gwǝndagwǝnde, CSCO 619 (2006).
Description
Gundagundiè
Citations
Osvaldo Raineri, “Aethiopica Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae”, in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Apostolicae Vaticanae XI, in Studi e Testi 423 (2004), 645.
Description
Gundé Gundì; Gunde Gunde; Gundè Gundo; Gundé Gundò; Gundé Gundó; Gundè-Gundó; Gundè-Gundò; Gundò-Gundò; Gundé Gundé; Gundò Gundò; Gundè Gundè; Gundì Gundì; Gundagundé
Citations
Osvaldo Raineri, Codices Comboniani Aethiopici (Vatican City: Bibliotheca Vaticana, 2000), 18, 42, 55, 59, 136, 164, 179, 184, 193.
Description
Gunda Gundê
Citations
Gianfranco Fiaccadori, “Prototipi miniate dell’Ottateuco etiopico,” Bollettino de Museo Bodoniano di Parma 8 (1994): 69-102.
Description
Debra Garzen
Citations
Robert Beylot, “Actes des Pères et Frères de Debra Garzen: introduction et instructions spirituelles et théologiques d’Estifanos,” Annales d'Éthiopie 15 (1990): 7-43, https://doi.org/10.3406/ethio.1990.939.
Description
Gundä Gundē
Citations
Steven Kaplan, “The Fälasha and the Stephanite: An Episode from ‘Gädlä Gäbrä Mäsih',” Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 48/2 (1985): 278-282.
Description
Dabra Garzen; Kokawa
Citations
Robert Beylot, “Sur quelques hétérodoxes éthiopiens: Estifanos, Abakerazun, Gabra Masih, Ezra,” Revue de l’histoire des religions 201/1 (1984): 25-36.
Description
Gunda Gundié; Keswa; Gunda Gundé; Gunda Gundie
Citations
Gigar Tesfaye, “Notes sur Gunda Gunde et d’autres couvents stéphanites dans le Tigray,” Abbay 10 (1979): 93-100.
Description
Gundegundé
Citations
Stefan Strelcyn, Catalogue des manuscrits éthiopiens de l’Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome: Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, 1976), 88.
Description
Gunda-Gunde; Dabra Gêrzên; Kaswâ; Dabra Kaswâ; Dabra Garzên
Citations
Aleksander Ferenc, “Les Actes d’Isaïe de Gunda-Gundē,” Annales d’Éthiopie 10 (1976): 243-294, https://doi.org/10.3406/ethio.1976.1173.
Description
Dabra Garzēn; Garzēn
Citations
William F. Macomber, A Catalogue of Ethiopian Manuscripts Microfilmed for the Ethiopian Manuscript Microfilm Library, Addis Ababa, and for the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, Collegeville, vol. I: Project Numbers 1-300 (Collegeville: Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, 1975), 6-7, https://archive.org/details/EMMLCatalog01.
Description
Gärzén Maryam; Däbrä Garzén
Citations
Kinefe-Rigb Zelleke, “Bibliography of the Ethiopic Hagiographical Traditions,” Journal of Ethiopian Studies 13 (1975): 77.
Description
Gunda Gunda
Citations
Otto A. Jäger and Ivy Pearce, Antiquities of North Ethiopia, 2nd ed. (Stuttgart: Brockhaus, 1974), 102.
Description
Gunda-Gundi; Gunda Gundi
Citations
Taddesse Tamrat, “Some Notes on the Fifteenth Century Stephanite “Heresy” in the Ethiopian Church,” Rassegna di Studi Etiopici 22 (1966): 103-115.
Description
Guendeguendē
Citations
G. W. B. Huntingford, The Land Charters of Northern Ethiopia (Addis Ababa: Institute of Ethiopian Studies, 1965), 75.
Description
Gounda-Goundé
Citations
Roger Schneider, “La bibliotheque du couvent de Gounda-Goundé,” Tarik 2 (1963): 45-46.
Description
Gunde-Gundié; Gunde-Guindié
Citations
Jules Leroy, “Recherches sur la tradition iconographique des Canons d’Eusèbe en Éthiopie,” Cahiers archéologiques 12 (1962): 174-204.
Description
Gunda-Gundē; Dabra Kaswā; Dabra Garizan; Kaswā
Citations
André Caquot, “Les Actes d'Ezrā de Gunda-Gundē,” Annales d’Éthiopie 4 (1961): 69-121, https://doi.org/10.3406/ethio.1961.1121.
Description
Gunda Gunde
Citations
Beatrice Playne, St. George for Ethiopia (London: Constable, 1954), pp. 86-92.
Description
Gunde Gundiè
Citations
Antonio Mordini, “Il convento di Gunde Gundiè,” Rassegna di Studi Etiopici 12 (1953): 29-70.
Description
Guenda-Guendé
Citations
Lady Herbert, Abyssinia and Its Apostle (London: Burns, Oates, & Co., 1867), 77, https://archive.org/details/AbyssiniaAndItsApostle/page/n91/mode/2up.
Description
Guịndạguịnde
Citations
Antoine d’Abbadie, Catalogue raisonné de manuscrits éthiopiens appartenant à Antoine d’Abbadie (Paris: Imprimerie impériale, 1859), 180, https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1044499/f198.item.texteImage.
Citations
GG 00180, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, accessed January 30, 2023, https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/623113.

Preferred citation

"Gunda Gundē Monastery." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified March 09, 2023. https://w3id.org/haf/organization/210313367594

Change notes

Date added
2021-04-14
Last edited
2023-03-09