12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Lalibela · Amhara · Ethiopia
Medieval · architecture
What the record shows
Biete Gabriel-Rufael, entered across a bridged trench; its monumental slanting facade is thought to preserve a fortified or palatial building older than the churches around it.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
Biete Gabriel-Rufael, Lalibela
Biete Gabriel-Rufael, entered across a bridged trench; its monumental slanting facade is thought to preserve a fortified or palatial building older than the churches around it.
Bete Gebriel-Rufael
Church in Ethiopia. In Lalibela dated 1200.
Biete Gabriel-Rufael
Beta Gabriel-Rafa’el, view from the north, 2006. The inclined rock wall is clearly shown, leading up to the flat roof of the twin churches whose arcaded façade is partly visible.
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. 129, fig. 194. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 144; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
