What the record shows
The cross-shaped monolithic church of Saint George, hewn downward into the volcanic scoria at Lalibela; the last and most refined of the town's eleven rock-hewn churches.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- Biete Ghiorgis (Church of Saint George), Lalibela
The cross-shaped monolithic church of Saint George, hewn downward into the volcanic scoria at Lalibela; the last and most refined of the town's eleven rock-hewn churches.
- Bete-Giyorgis, one of the 11 Rock Hewn Churches of Lalibela — Figure 3.2
Figure 3.2 Bete-Giyorgis, one of the 11 Rock Hewn Churches of Lalibela
- IX. The rock-cut church of Giyorgis at Lalibala — p. c. 226
IX. The rock-cut church of Giyorgis at Lalibala
- Church of Saint George
One of eleven monolithic churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Dated 1200.
- Biete Ghiorgis (Beta Giyorgis)
Beta Giyorgis, general view from the west, 2006. In the foreground is the canalised course of the Giyorgis torrent, with the old approach behind. The peaks of Asheten are on the horizon, directly behind the church.
- Place
- Lalibela · Amhara · Ethiopia
- Date
- 12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela)
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Cited from
- Wagaw Bogale and Geremew Eskezia, History Student Textbook Grade 11, (2023), p. 68
