Debre Libanos

Debre Libanos is a monastery in Ethiopia, lying northwest of Addis Ababa within the Semien Shewa Zone of the Oromia Region. Founded within the thirteenth century by way of Saint Tekle Haymanot, according to tradition, he pondered in a cave for 29 years. The monastery's chief abbot, called the Ichege, turned into the second one maximum effective reputable in the Ethiopian Church after the Abuna. The monastery complicated sits on a terrace among a cliff and the gorge of one of the tributaries of the Abbay River.

None of the authentic homes of Debre Libanos continue to exist, despite the fact that David Buxton suspected "there are exciting matters still to be observed the various neighbouring cliffs." Debre Libanos suffered remarkable destruction at some point of the invasion of Ahmad Gragn while considered one of his fans, Ura'i Abu Bakr, set it on fire 21 July 1531, regardless of the attempts of its network to ransom the church. Although the Ichege intervened to guard the Gambos throughout the reign of Sarsa Dengel, the homes had been not absolutely rebuilt until after the go to of Emperor Iyasu the Great in 1699.