Debra Berhan Selassie
Iyasu's long-lasting accomplishment, was the Church of Debra Berhan Selassie, the Light of the Trinity . Debra Berhan Selassie represents a masterpiece of the Gondarene school of art.
It stands, surrounded by a high wall, on raised ground to the north-west of the city and continues to be in regular use. A plain, thatched, rectangular structure on the outside, the interior of Debra Berhan Selassie is marvelously painted with a great many scenes from religious history. The spaces between the beams of the ceiling contain the radiant wide-eyed images of more than eighty angels' faces - all different, with their own character and language.
The north wall, in which is the holy of holies, is dominated by a depiction of the Trinity above the crucifixion. The theme of the south wall is St Mary; that of the east wall the life of Jesus. The west wall shows important saints, with St George in red-and-gold on a prancing white horse.
