city
Yeha
Yeha, Tigray, Ethiopia · Africa: Aksum & Ethiopia
14.286, 39.019
Tradition. The temple and the Christian church on the site are archaeologically attested. The link to Abba Aftse is tradition.
Yeha was a pre-Aksumite center with a great stone temple from the early 1st millennium BCE. In the Christian period a church was built beside the temple. Tradition links it to Abba Aftse, another of the Nine Saints. The site shows Christianity taking over one of Ethiopia's oldest sacred places.
Source stance: neutral. Archaeology plus Ethiopian hagiographic tradition.
People and groups named here
- Abba Aftse (traditional, one of the Nine Saints)
Sources
- Pleiades place 269070833: Yeha
Pleiades Gazetteer (ISAW, NYU). Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Yeha (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors. Accessed 2026-11-11.
- Ancient Ethiopian Churches in Historical Perspective
David W. Phillipson, The British Academy. Accessed 2026-11-11.
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.