Dabra Maʻār Giyorgis Church

HMML ID
892742781446
PURL
https://w3id.org/haf/organization/892742781446
LC name
Dabra Maʻār Giyorgis (Church : Ethiopia)
HMML name
Dabra Maʻār Giyorgis Church
HMML native script
ደብረ ፡ መዓር ፡ ጊዮርጊስ
Library of Congress
https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2023061475
VIAF
https://viaf.org/viaf/45168651801607692359

Variants

  • Church of St. George in Dabra Maar
  • Debra Maar Giyorgis
  • Debra Maʼar
  • Debra-Maar Giyorgis
  • Däbrä Maʻara
  • Däbrä Maʻräya
  • Däbrä Mäʻar
  • Däbrä Mäʻara
  • Däbrä Mäʻarä
  • Däbrä Mǝʻrya

Organization information

Organization type
Churches
Locations
Countries
Fields of activity

Organization relationships

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General notes

Description
The name itself suggests a monastery, but there is no monastic community there today and scholarship is relatively consistent in referring to it as a church. However, it is possible that such a downgrade never officially happened, and that this place therefore technically remains a monastery.
Description
Monastery of Däbrä Mäʻar Gärʼalta; Däbrä-Mäʻar
Citations
Kinefe-Rigb Zelleke, "Bibliography of the Ethiopic Hagiographical Traditions," Journal of Ethiopian Studies 13 (1975): 57-102, at 74.
Description
Debra Maʼar
Citations
D. R. Buxton, "The Rock-Hewn and Other Medieval Churches of Tigré Province, Ethiopia," Archaeologia 103 (1971), 33-100, at 57.
Description
Debra Maar Giyorgis
Citations
Otto A. Jäger and Ivy Pearce, Antiquities of North Ethiopia, 2nd edition (Stuttgart: F. A. Brockhaus, 1976), 115.
Description
Church of St. George in Dabra Maar
Citations
"Ethiopian Gospels," The Walters Art Museum, accessed May 27, 2022, https://art.thewalters.org/detail/31912/ethiopian-gospels-3/.
Description
Debra-Maar Giyorgis
Citations
Roger Sauter, “Églises rupestres au Tigré,” Annales dʼÉthiopie 10 (1976): 157-175, at 167, https://www.persee.fr/doc/ethio_0066-2127_1976_num_10_1_1168.
Description
Däbrä Mäʻar; Däbrä Maʻräya; Däbrä Maʻara; Däbrä Mäʻarä; Däbrä Mǝʻrya; Däbrä Mäʻara
Citations
Marilyn E. Heldman and Monica S. Devens, "The Four Gospels of Däbrä Mäʻar: Colophon and Note of Donation," Scrinium 1 (2005): 77-99.
Citations
EMDA 00463, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library.

Preferred citation

"Dabra Maʻār Giyorgis Church." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified July 06, 2023. https://w3id.org/haf/organization/892742781446

Change notes

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