Rock-Hewn Churches of Tigray, Ethiopia in HD
The ancient rock-hewn churches of Tigray were built between 4th and 15th century, there are more than 100 of them. They offer amazing atmospheric ambience and views over spectacular landscapes. In this video visit to 6 of the most appealing churches in Tigray - interesting either historically, architecturally or because they offer the most spectacular views over the surrounding landscapes. We hiked to 3 of the Gheralta cluster churches: Maryam and Daniel Korkor, Abuna Yemata Guh; visited Mikael Imba (Atsbi cluster), Medhane Alem Adi Kasho and Petros and Paulos (Teka Tesfai cluster), and Abreha We Atsbeha (Wukro cluster).
Recorded February 2014 in HD with Panasonic TM900.
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Northern Ethiopia
The Johannesburg Branch of the South African Archaeological Society organized a trip to the northern part of Ethiopia in 2009. A flight from Addis Ababa took the members to Axum, the former capital of the Axumite Empire, a lesser known of the great civilisations. Crossing the up to 4500 meter high Semien Mountain Range, they descended to Gondar with its medieval castles, residences of ethiopian emperors during the 16th and 17th centuries. On Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile, are very interesting ancient churches and monasteries. A short flight took them to Lalibela with its world-famous rock hewn churches. They continued with 4x4 vehicles to the Afar Region in the north west of Ethiopia, a seldom visited arid desert, where they were fortunate to meet american palaeontologists at the site where Lucy the famous 3.2 million year old hominid was found in 1974. Further east lies the walled city of Harar, one of the holy cities of Islam.
Die Niederlassung der South African Archaeological Society in Johannesburg veranstaltete im Jahre 2009 eine Reise zum nördlichen Teil Äthiopiens. Ein Flug von Addis Ababa brachte die Teilnehmer nach Axum, der ehemaligen Hauptstadt des Aksumitischen Reiches, eine weniger bekannte der großen Zivilisationen. Nachdem sie das bis zu 4500 Meter hohe Gebiet der Semien Berge überquert hatten, erreichten sie Gondar mit seinen mittelalterlichen Festungen, den Wohnsitzen der äthiopischen Herrscher während des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Am Tanasee, der Quelle des Blauen Nils, befanden sich historische Kirchen und Klöster. Ein kurzer Flug brachte sie nach Lalibela mit seinen weltbekannten, in Basaltlava gemeißelten Kirchen. Mit 4×4 Fahrzeugen setzten sie ihre Reise zur Afar Region fort, den Nordwesten Äthiopiens. In der trockenen und selten besuchten Wüste hatten sie das Glück, amerikanische Paläontologen an jenem Platz zu treffen, an dem im Jahre 1974 Lucy, der bekannte 3,2 Millionen Jahre alte Menschenaffe, gefunden wurde. Weiter östlich lag die ummauerte Altstadt der islamischen Hochburg Harar.
Ethiopia (Maychew Town and Woreda/Tigray) Part 20
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Maychew, also Maichew (Ge'ez: ማይጨው), is a town and woreda in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. It is located at 665 km north of Addis Ababa along Ethiopian Highway 1 which runs to Mekelle (the capital city of Tigray region) with an altitude of 2479 m. According to Ethiopia’s agro-ecological setting, Maychew and its environs are classified under the Weinadega (semi-temperate zone).Wikipedia
Ethiopia Axum (Aksum 1) Part 14
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Axum or Aksum is a city in northern Ethiopia. The town has a population of 56,500 residents (2010), and is governed as an urban wäräda.
The original capital of the Kingdom of Aksum, it is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in Africa. Axum was a naval and trading power that ruled the region from about 400 BC into the 10th century. In 1980 UNESCO added Aksum's archaeological sites to its list of World Heritage Sites due to their historic value.
Located in the Mehakelegnaw Zone of the Tigray Region near the base of the Adwa mountains, Axum has an elevation of 2,131 metres (6,991 ft). Axum is surrounded by La'ilay Maychew wäräda.
The major Aksumite monuments in the town are stelae. These obelisks are around 1,700 years old and have become a symbol of the Ethiopian people's identity.[12] The largest number are in the Northern Stelae Park, ranging up to the 33-metre-long (3.84 metres wide, 2.35 metres deep, weighing 520 tonnes) Great Stele, believed to have fallen and broken during construction. The Obelisk of Axum (24.6 metres high, 2.32 metres wide, 1.36 metres deep, weighing 170 tonnes) was removed by the Italian army in 1937, and returned to Ethiopia in 2005 and reinstalled July 31, 2008. This stele was already broken into pieces before being shipped. The next tallest is the 24-metre (20.6 metres high above the front baseplate, 2.65 metres wide, 1.18 metres deep, weighing 160 tonnes) King Ezana's Stele. Three more stelae measure 18.2 metres high, 1.56 metres wide, 0.76 metres deep, weighing 56 tonnes; 15.8 metres high, 2.35 metres wide, 1 metres deep, weighing 75 tonnes; 15.3 metres high, 1.47 metres wide, 0.78 metres deep, weighing 43 tonnes.[14] The stelae are believed to mark graves and would have had cast metal discs affixed to their sides, which are also carved with architectural designs. The Gudit Stelae to the west of town, unlike the northern area, are interspersed with mostly 4th century tombs.
The other major feature of the town are the Old and New Cathedrals of St Mary of Zion. The Old St Mary of Zion Cathedral was built in 1665 by Emperor Fasilides and said to have previously housed the Ark of the Covenant. The original cathedral, said to have been built by Ezana and augmented several times after was believed to have been massive with 12 naves. It was burned to the ground by Gudit, rebuilt, and then destroyed again during the Gragn wars of the 1500s. It was again rebuilt by Emperor Gelawdewos (completed by his brother and successor Emperor Minas) and Emperor Fasilides replaced that structure with the present one. Only males are permitted entry into the Old St. Mary's Cathedral (some say as a result of the destruction of the original church by Gudit). The New Cathedral of St. Mary of Zion stands next to the old one, and was built to fulfill a pledge by Emperor Haile Selassie to the Our Lady of Zion for the liberation of Ethiopia from the Fascist occupation. Built in a neo-Byzantine style, work on the new cathedral began in 1955, and allows admittance to women. Emperor Haile Selassie interrupted the state visit of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II to travel to Axum to attend the dedication of the new Cathedral and pay personal homage, showing the importance of this church in the Ethiopian Empire. The Queen visited the Cathedral a few days later. Between the two cathedrals is a small chapel known as The Chapel of the Tablet built at the same time as the new cathedral, and which is believed to house the Ark of the Covenant. Emperor Haile Selassie's consort, Empress Menen, paid for its construction from her private funds. Admittance to the chapel is closed to all but the guardian monk who resides there. Entrance is even forbidden to the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, and to the Emperor of Ethiopia during the monarchy. The two cathedrals and the chapel of the Ark are the focus of pilgrimage and considered the holiest sites in Ethiopia to members of its Orthodox Church.
Other attractions in Axum include archaeological and ethnographic museums, the Ezana Stone written in Sabaean, Ge'ez and Ancient Greek in a similar manner to the Rosetta Stone, King Bazen's Tomb (a megalith considered to be one of the earliest structures), the so-called Queen of Sheba's Bath (actually a reservoir), the 4th-century Ta'akha Maryam and 6th-century Dungur palaces, the monasteries of Abba Pentalewon and Abba Liqanos and the Lioness of Gobedra rock art.Local legend claims the Queen of Sheba lived in the town.
Ethiopia/To Addis Ababa via Butajira Part 68
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Hara Sheitan Volcanic Butajira
Butajira is a town and separate woreda in south-central Ethiopia. Located at the base of the Zebidar massif in the Gurage Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, this town has a latitude and longitude of 8°07′N 38°22′E and an elevation of 2131 meters above sea level. It is surrounded by Meskane woreda. It was part of former Meskanena Mareko woreda. According to the Gurage Zone government, Butajira is one of 12 towns with electrical power, one of 11 with telephone service and one of nine that have postal service. drinkable water is provided by 4 boreholes. The town has a weekly market on Fridays. Notable landmarks in the town include a fountain on the south side of the town, which is fed from a sacred spring dedicated to saint Tekle Haymanot. The zone authorities mention another local landmark is the local mosque, which was completed in AD 1979 (1972 EC), and has two large praying halls, each with room for 2500 individuals: the hall on the ground floor is for women while the hall on the second floor is for men.
Butajira was founded between 1926 when a missionary Pere Azaiz found nothing there, and 1935 when a German ethnographic expedition found a town laid out in straight lines and square shapes to serve as the administrative center of the Gurage people. After Ras Desta Damtew was taken prisoner on 24 February 1937 in the small village of Eya he was brought to Butajira where, after a perfunctory trial, he was executed that evening. British patrols, acting as part of the East African Campaign, found that arbegnoch groups had dispersed the local Italian positions, leading to both the British and Ethiopian flags being raised over the town on 21 April 1941.
Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this town has a total population of 33,406, of whom 16,923 are men and 16,483 women. The majority of the inhabitants were reported as Muslim, with 51.27% of the population reporting that belief, while 39.58% practice Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and 8.72% were Protestants.
The 1994 national census reported this town had a total population of 20,509 of whom 9,827 were men and 10,682 were women.Wikipedia
North Ethiopia-Fascinating and mysterious tour!Full HD
-The trail contains Blue Nile,Gondar,Simien national park,Axum,Lalibela and Mekelle.
Including Timkat festival from Lalibela and Axum.
Malka Balqees/Queen Sheba's Kingdom, Axum - Ethiopia Part 2 (Travel Documentary in Urdu Hindi)
I hope you enjoyed my first part of Ethiopia (Najashi Badshah). In this part, I will show you the kingdom of Queen Saba/Bilqees. I will show with her palace and swimming pool. Then I will show you Axum obelisks and churches of Yeha, Abraha and Wukro. Enjoy the kingdom of Malka Baqees!
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The dangers of Debre Damo monastery (Ethiopia)
Debre Damo is the name of a flat-topped mountain, or amba, and a 6th century monastery in northern Ethiopia. The mountain is steeply rising plateau of trapezoidal shape, about 1000 by 400 meters in dimension, having an elevation of 2216 meters above sea level, and located west of Adigrat in the Mehakelegnaw Zone of the Tigray Region. The monastery, accessible only by rope up a sheer cliff, is known for its collection of manuscripts, and having the earliest existing church building in Ethiopia still in its original style. Tradition claims the monastery was founded in the sixth century by Abuna Aregawi.
The monastery received its first archeological examination by E. Littman who led a German expedition to northern Ethiopia in the early 20th century. By the time David Buxton saw the ancient church in the mid-1940s, he found it on the point of collapse;[1] a few years later, the English architect D.H. Matthews assisted in the restoration of the building, which included the rebuilding of one of its wood and stone walls (a characteristic style of Aksumite architecture).[2] Thomas Pakenham, who visited the church in 1955, records a tradition that Debre Damo had also once been a royal prison for heirs to the Emperor of Ethiopia, like the better known Wehni and Amba Geshen. The exterior walls of the church were built of alternating courses of limestone blocks and wood, fitted with the projecting stumps that Ethiopians call 'monkey heads.' Once inside, Pakenham was in awe of what he saw:
First we were shown the narthex or ante-chamber. In its dusty ceiling one could dimly make out a series of wood-carvings -- peacocks drinking from a vase, a lion and a monkey, several fabulous animals. These, as I knew, were probably copies from Syrian textiles imported into the country. The designs looked familiar enough -- hardly different from the fabulous beasts that decorate our Romanesque churches. And in fact, as I reflected, the art of Egypt and Syria and Byzantium was developing on similar lines to European art when these panels were being cut. It was a melancholy thought that, ten centuries later, workmanship is not to be had in Ethiopia.
When we had gained the nave of the church, the full excitement of the architecture was apparent. The stones holding up the roof piers were actual Axumite relics incorporated in the Christian structure; while the doors and windows which held up the roof were all Axumite in style; their knobbly frames were of exactly the same design as those on the obelisks I had seen at Axum. But the demands of the Christian church had produced entirely un-Axumite features. Below the nave roof a 'clerestory' of wooden windows let in a dim religious light from the outside world. And just visible above the ubiquitous draperies that shrouded the church in hieratic gloom, we could see a chancel arch leading to the sanctuary. It was exciting to see, here in this fortress above the wastes of Moslem Africa, features cast in the strong mould of the basilicas of early Christendom
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Axum - Timkat - jumping in the blessed water pool - part 2
Ethiopians pray full night around ceremonial tent where is temporary stored the Ark of the Covenant with Ten Commandments, which adherents believe God gave to Moses on Mount Sinai. At the morning priests bless a pool and people jumps into the water. People celebrate the feast of Timkat the most important holiday for the Ethopian Orthodox Christians faithful.
Noord Ethiopië deel 2
Noord Ethiopië , de rotskerken van Lalibela vormen het sluitstuk van een beklijvende reis