Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela
Ethiopia
Date inscribed: 1978| Inscribed criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)
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The 11 medieval monolithic cave churches of this 13th-century 'New Jerusalem' are situated in a mountainous region in the heart of Ethiopia near a traditional village with circular-shaped dwellings. Lalibela is a high place of Ethiopian Christianity, still today a place of pilmigrage and devotion.

Source: NFUAJ