Rema Island is located in the southeastern part of
Lake Tana
Lake Tana ( am, ጣና ሐይቅ, T’ana ḥāyik’i; previously Tsana) is the largest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile. Located in Amhara Region in the north-western Ethiopian Highlands, the lake is approximately long and wid ...
in
Ethiopia
Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...
. It has a latitude and longitude of .
Overview
It is the location of the church of Medhane Alem, where the Emperor
Sarsa Dengel is interred. When
R.E. Cheesman visited the church in March 1933, he found some paintings which he described as "beautiful", suggesting European artists or monks who had studied in
Palestine
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. Two
triptychs in particular retained good colors, with "the old gold background and reds are superb and look like lacquer." Cheesman was also shown a blue-and-white porcelain jar, in which
Sarsa Dengel's entrails were brought from the place of his death.
[R.E. Cheesman]
"Lake Tana and Its Islands", ''Geographical Journal''
85 (1935), p. 498
References
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Amhara Region
Islands of Lake Tana