11/17/2018 0 Comments Lalibela Lalibela is in the mountainous north of Ethiopia. The Christian churches have been listed as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Built between 1181A.D and 1221 the eleven churches in this small area are all rock cut monoliths. Each church has been mined out of rock to the depths of several stories, similar in technique to the way the Ellora temple in India was created. The churches are accessible via side channels and tunnels also cut down into the solid rock. Each of the eleven churches are unique to one another, but sharing the same aura of solid sturdiness. The church of St George featured in the photograph above is in the form of a cross and considered to be the finest of the eleven. The link takes you to a video made by the BBC about Haylesilassie Kahsay a Coptic Christian priest and the 6thC Saint Abuna Yemata church that he cares for which is carved high up into a cliff in the Gheralta mountains of northern Ethipia: https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p05yb46x/this-man-scales-a-250m-cliff-each-day-to-get-to-work
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