Istifanos Monastery (or St Stephen Monastery) is a monastery in Ethiopia, located in Lake Hayq. (The Stephen commemorated at the monastery is not the Saint Stephen of Acts.) The church structure was built around the 9th century by the Aksumite king Dil Na'od.[1] In the 13th century the church was converted into a monastery in large part due to the work of Saint Iyasus Mo'a and later Emperor Yekuno Amlak.[2]
^Taddesse Tamrat, Church and State in Ethiopia (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), p. 36.
^Taddesse Tamrat, pp. 66-7.
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stelae in the Gudit Stelae Field Another stelae field in Aksum. IstifanosMonastery in Hayk. Aksumite gold coins. Aksum stelle and ruins Aksum stelle...
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serious charge, whose members included graduates of the school at IstifanosMonastery in Lake Hayq. During this period the Abun was appointed by the Pope...
Ku'bar on the shore of Lake Hayq, south of Angot, and built the IstifanosMonastery. Aksum by that time was no longer the center of the Christian kingdom...
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border with Kalu. Other notable landmarks include the monasteries of Debre Egziabeher and Istifanos. The NGO Agri-Service Ethiopia, announced in November...
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