Debre Damo 

Debre Damo is the oldest existing intact church in Ethiopia. And it has been built by Abune Aregawi, one of the nine Saints, built the church in the sixth century. The monastery of Debre Damo can only be reached by rope pulley. The monastery locates 76 kilometer from Axum.(closed to women) The treasured secrets within, kept intact throughout the country’s 1,400 tumultuous years of history because of that arduous, dangerous ascent, include an extensive collection of manuscripts, among them the oldest surviving fragments of texts anywhere in Ethiopia. The church now houses about fifty manuscripts, although the monks claim that they formerly possessed no less than a thousand.