Dabra Ṣeyon Abuna Abrehām Monastery

Monastery in Garʻāltā founded in the late-fourteenth or early-fifteenth century by a monk named Abrehām

HMML ID
481554128654
PURL
https://w3id.org/haf/organization/481554128654
LC name
Dabra Ṣeyon Abuna Abrehām (Monastery : Ethiopia)
HMML name
Dabra Ṣeyon Abuna Abrehām Monastery
HMML native script
ደብረ ፡ ጽዮን ፡ አቡነ ፡ አብርሃም
Library of Congress
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2023061473
VIAF
https://viaf.org/viaf/42168651780207692334

Variants

  • Abuna Abraham Debra Sion
  • Church of Saint Mary at Däbrä Seyon
  • Debre-Tsion Abunè Abraham
  • Monastery of Däbrä Ṣǝyon

Organization information

Organization type
Monasteries
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
Monastery of Däbrä Ṣǝyon
Citations
Siegbert Uhlig, ed., Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, vol. 2, D-Ha (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005), 41.
Description
Church of Saint Mary at Däbrä Seyon
Citations
"Folding Processional Icon in the Shape of a Fan," The Walters Art Museum, accessed May 27, 2022, https://art.thewalters.org/detail/27195/folding-processional-icon-in-the-shape-of-a-fan/.
Description
Abuna Abraham Debra Sion
Citations
Otto A. Jäger and Ivy Pearce, Antiquities of North Ethiopia, 2nd edition (Stuttgart: F. A. Brockhaus, 1976), 113.
Description
Debre-Tsion Abunè Abraham
Citations
Roger Sauter, “Églises rupestres au Tigré,” Annales d’Éthiopie 10 (1976): 157-175, at 168, https://www.persee.fr/doc/ethio_0066-2127_1976_num_10_1_1168.
Citations
EMDA 00464, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.

Preferred citation

"Dabra Ṣeyon Abuna Abrehām Monastery." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified July 06, 2023. https://w3id.org/haf/organization/481554128654

Change notes

Date added
2022-05-27
Last edited
2023-07-06