What the record shows
Biete Mariam (House of Mary), among the earliest of the Lalibela churches, standing in a deep rock-cut courtyard of the northern group.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- Biete Mariam, Lalibela
Biete Mariam (House of Mary), among the earliest of the Lalibela churches, standing in a deep rock-cut courtyard of the northern group.
- Bete Maryam
Building in Ethiopia. Recorded on Wikidata as a church in Lalibela dated 1200.
- Inside the Church of Bet Maryam, Lalibela, Ethiopia (No. 2) (3229488172)
There's a marvelous contrast inside the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela between the hard, dark, worn stone surfaces and the bright paintings and soft fabric curtains with which the churches are furnished. Walking through the interior, one glimpses partial views of brilliant paintings and archaic surface decorations between the many columns that support the building. Those are the elements I sought to capture in this image. The church of Bet Maryam dates to the 13th century. I do not know the age of the painting of the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus,
- Biete Mariam (Beta Maryam)
Beta Maryam, view from the southwest, 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
- David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 161, fig. 248. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 176; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
