sentences:  The Ras built a palace in the village, as well as houses for his wives and the church Chelekot Selassie, which Philips Briggs described as an "architecturally impressive example of the circular "tikul" styles of paintings" and "covered in beautiful 19th-century paintings".When Wolde Selassie died in Chalacot (1816), his nephew Walda Rufa'el sacked it.The town had recovered its former prosperity by the 1840s when Ferret and Galiner visited it; they described it as "one of the principal towns" of Ethiopia, with a population of 3,000 living in well-constructed houses and well-kept gardens.