Gunda Gunde Monastery

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Building in Ethiopia

Gunda Gunde Monastery is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo monastery located east of Adigrat in the Misraqawi (Eastern) Zone of the northern Tigray Region in Ethiopia. It is known for its prolific scriptorium, as well as its library of Geʽez manuscripts. This collection of over 220 volumes, all but one dating from before the 16th century, is one of the largest collections of its kind in Ethiopia.

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