Evidence type: Documented history
Not yet available in isiXhosa. Showing the English original.
Eleven medieval churches hewn out of the living rock in the mountains of Ethiopia, attributed to King Lalibela’s plan for a “New Jerusalem”. Lalibela is still a place of pilgrimage.
Example: Biete Ghiorgis, the House of St George, carved in the shape of a cross and reached through trenches cut in the rock.