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| - Debre Libanos (ደብረ፡ሊባኖስ, Däbrä Libanos) is a monastery in Ethiopia, lying northwest of Addis Ambasa in the district of Selale of Shewa Province. The monastery was founded in the thirteenth century by Saint Tekle Haymanot, who according to legend meditated in a cave for thirty years standing on one leg. The monastery's chef Abbot, is known as the Etchage, and is the second most powerful official in the Abyssinian Church after the Abuna.
- Debre Libanos is a monastery in Ethiopia, lying northwest of Addis Ababa in the Oromia Region. Founded in the thirteenth century by Saint Tekle Haymanot, the monastery's chief abbot, called the Ichege, was the second most powerful official in the Ethiopian Church after the Abuna. According to David Buxton, the original route to Debre Libanos was through a cleft in the cliffs that line the eastern side of the Abay. In the later 20th century a road was laid from the main Addis Ababa - Debre Marqos highway to the monastery; it is a little more than four kilometers long.
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| - Debre Libanos (ደብረ፡ሊባኖስ, Däbrä Libanos) is a monastery in Ethiopia, lying northwest of Addis Ambasa in the district of Selale of Shewa Province. The monastery was founded in the thirteenth century by Saint Tekle Haymanot, who according to legend meditated in a cave for thirty years standing on one leg. The monastery's chef Abbot, is known as the Etchage, and is the second most powerful official in the Abyssinian Church after the Abuna. The monastery is a complex that sits on a terrace between a great cliff and gorge of one of the tributaries of the Abbay River. None of the original buildings of Debre Libanos survive, as a result of numerous ravages, and destruction over the last several hundred years. The modern buildings, that include a church over Saint Tekle Haymanot's tomb were built in the 1880s, under the reign of Menelik II, and successful monarchs added expansions, including Emperor Dawit V.
- Debre Libanos is a monastery in Ethiopia, lying northwest of Addis Ababa in the Oromia Region. Founded in the thirteenth century by Saint Tekle Haymanot, 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 gorgle 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." Current buildings include the church over Tekle Haymanot's tomb, which Emperor Haile Selassie ordered constructed in 1961; a slightly older Church of the Cross, where Buxton was told a fragment of the True Cross is preserved; and five religious schools. The cave where the saint lived is in the nearby cliffs, which one travel guide describes as a five minute walk away. This cave contains a spring, whose water is considered holy and is the object of pilgrimages. According to David Buxton, the original route to Debre Libanos was through a cleft in the cliffs that line the eastern side of the Abay. In the later 20th century a road was laid from the main Addis Ababa - Debre Marqos highway to the monastery; it is a little more than four kilometers long.
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