House of Gebre Selassi Barya

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Gebre Selassi Barya (center) in February 1906 in Aksum with participants of the German Aksum expedition
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The house of Gebre Selassi Barya in Axum in Ethiopia is the listed former residential building of the nobleman Gebre Selassie Barya (1873-1931). The house was built in 1902 after Barya the same year by the Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II. For lieutenant governor of that province Tigray had been appointed.

The building was restored in 2006 and is to the right of the new Archaeological Museum of Axum , which was inaugurated in 2008, behind the Aksum stele park, which is part of the world cultural heritage .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heiko Hooge: Ethiopia - travel guide from Iwanowski. Individual travel guide with many detailed maps and map download. 4th edition, Iwanowski's Reisebuchverlag, Dormagen 2017, ISBN 978-3-86457-241-8 and ISBN 978-3-86457-242-5 and ISBN 978-3-86457-243-2 ; Preview over google books

Coordinates: 14 ° 7 ′ 53.6 ″  N , 38 ° 43 ′ 6 ″  E