1777. Tekle Haymanot became a monk and lived as a hermit in Waldebba, where he died a few months later. Despite this political turmoil, art and scholarship flourished in Gondar. Richard Pankhurst credits the construction of seven churches built in or near that city as being built during his reign. The most important was Ba'eta Maryam, built in 1775, which originally had a large bronze cross on its roof that towered over all of Gondar; the others include: Qeddus Qirqos (dedicated to St. Cyriacus), Qeddus Petros we Pawlos (dedicated to Ss. Peter and Paul), Farta Lideta ("the Nativity of Mary") at Farta, Yohannes Wolde Nagwadgwad (dedicated to St. John the Evangelist), Abajale Tekle Haymanot (dedicated to St. Tekle Haymanot), and Debre Tibab ("the Mount of Knowledge"). References |- 1754 births 1777 deaths 18th-century emperors of Ethiopia 18th-century monarchs in Africa Solomonic dynasty