Debre Libanos (Eritrea)

Debre Libanos is the oldest Christian monastery in Eritrea. It was founded by Abba Meta in the early 6th century. A copy of a land grant from Gabra Masqal to the monastery is known, and the record of a later grant from Emperor Lalibela to Debre Libanos has survived.^[1]

Its library holds a number of manuscripts, some written as early as the 13th century.

References

1. ^ Richard Pankhurst, The Ethiopian Borderlands (Lawrenceville: Red Sea Press, 1997), pp. 22, 37

See also

• List of Eritrean Orthodox monasteries