Eritrea
Northern Red Sea Region
Ghinda subregion

Debre Bizen

Debre Bizen is an Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church monastery. Located at the top of Debre Bizen the mountain near the town of in . Its library contains many important Ge'ez manuscripts.
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  • Type: Monastery
  • Denomination: Orthodox
  • Description: building in Africa
  • Also known as: “Debre Bizen Gedam” and “Debre Bīzen Gedam”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nefasit.

Village
Photo: Reinhard Dietrich, CC0.
, also known as Tappa , is a small town in the Northern Red Sea Region of . Monastery of Debre Bizen is located at the mountains above.

Debre Bizen

Latitude
15.33033° or 15° 19′ 49″ north
Longitude
39.08382° or 39° 5′ 2″ east
Elevation
2,432 metres (7,979 feet)
Open location code
7G7X83JM+4G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3632136412
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­monastery
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­orthodox
Geo­Names ID
339729
Wiki­data ID
Q5248540
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Debre Bizen” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دير ديبري بيزن”
  • French: “Debre Bizen”
  • German: “Debre Bizen Kloster”
  • Greek: “Ντεμπρέ Μπιζέν”
  • Hausa: “Debre Bizen”
  • Italian: “Monastero di Debrè Bizen”
  • Spanish: “Monasterio de Debre Bizen”
  • Swedish: “Kloestr eritrea”

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