Rock-hewn church of Bete-Giorgis in Lalaibela, Ethiopia

Rock-hewn church of Bete-Giorgis in Lalaibela, Ethiopia

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Originally, called Roha and it was the capital of a local dynasty known as The Zagwe. The town was renamed Lalibela after its most important ruler who lived in late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, made and well known for the 11 eleven rock-hewn churches, king Lalibela. The churches are really the bright marks of that period. The town of Lalibela located at the top of a hill flourishes with a museum of rock hewn churches. The rock hewn churches of Lalaibela are the most famous which cut out of soft volcanic tuff and extremely fine. Alvarez, who visited Lalibela in 1520, described them as “edifices, the like of which-and and so many-can not be found any where else in the world. They are churches entirely excavated in the rock, very well hewn…It wears me to write more of these works, because it seems to me that they will not believe me, If I write more.”

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