Atlas Entry

Lalibela

Ọjọ́
12th–13th century CE
Orílẹ̀-èdè

Irú ẹ̀rí: Documented history

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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.