12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Lalibela · Amhara · Ethiopia
Medieval · architecture
What the record shows
Biete Abba Libanos, a hypogeous church of the eastern group, cut free on four sides but left joined to the mother rock at its roof.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
Biete Abba Libanos, Lalibela
Biete Abba Libanos, a hypogeous church of the eastern group, cut free on four sides but left joined to the mother rock at its roof.
Bete Abba Libanos
Church in Ethiopia. In Lalibela dated 1200.
Biete Abba Libanos
Beta Abba Libanos, view from the south, c. 1970. Since this photograph was taken, much accumulated silt has been removed from the floor of the court, and most of the vegetation shown here has been lost to erosion. Note reconstruction at east end.
Place
Lalibela · Amhara · Ethiopia
Date
12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela)
Structure or site
Architecture & ruins
Cited from
David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 143, fig. 222. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 158; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
