Official Name: | Shonke |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Ethiopia |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location with in Ethiopia |
Coordinates: | 10.6181°N 39.9731°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Ethiopia |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Type2: | Zone |
Subdivision Type3: | District |
Subdivision Name1: | Amhara |
Subdivision Name2: | Oromiya Zone |
Subdivision Name3: | Dawa Chefa |
Elevation M: | 1,600 |
Elevation Ft: | 5,200 |
Timezone1: | GMT +3 |
Shonke (Amharic: ሾንኬ) is an Argobba village located some 23 km away from Kemise town, in Jirota kebele, in the current administrative district of Dawa Chefe, Oromia Zone of Amhara Region, Ethiopia. The village was part of former Chefe Golana Dewerahmedo Wereda of the same Zone and was also part of southeast Wollo Province, in the Pre-1992's administrative division.
It was one of the 19th century Islamic education and sufi-order centers where notable sufi saint-scholars like Shaykh Jawhar b. Haydar b. ‘Ali (c. 1837–1937) were permanently settled and taught many Muslim scholars .[1]