Gannata Giyorgis

Gännätä Giyorgis was a royal church of Amhara, founded by the Ethiopian king Eskender in the late fifteenth century. It belonged to a landscape of royal foundations and religious communities in the highlands, where churches expressed the close relationship between the Christian monarchy and the Ethiopian Church. In the sixteenth century, the wars between the Ethiopian kingdom and the forces of Imam Ahmad brought destruction to many of the region's religious centres.