What the record shows
Biete Amanuel, a monolithic church of the eastern group whose carved facade imitates Aksumite layered wood-and-stone masonry.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- Biete Amanuel, Lalibela
Biete Amanuel, a monolithic church of the eastern group whose carved facade imitates Aksumite layered wood-and-stone masonry.
- Church of Beta Amanuel, Lalibela (photograph by M.-L. Derat, Mission Lalibela, 2009)
Figure 3. Church of Beta Amanuel, Lalibela (photograph by M.-L. Derat, Mission Lalibela, 2009)
- Biete Amanuel (Beta Emmanuel)
Beta Emmanuel, the new entrance to the court in its southwest corner, c. 1970.
- Place
- Lalibela · Amhara · Ethiopia
- Date
- 12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela)
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Cited from
- Timothy Insoll, The archaeology of complexity and cosmopolitanism in medieval Ethiopia: an introduction, (2021), p. 9
