12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Lalibela · Amhara · Ethiopia
Medieval · architecture
What the record shows
Biete Medhani Alem (House of the Saviour of the World), the largest monolithic rock-hewn church in the world, its exterior ringed by a colonnade of square-cut piers.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
Biete Medhani Alem, Lalibela
Biete Medhani Alem (House of the Saviour of the World), the largest monolithic rock-hewn church in the world, its exterior ringed by a colonnade of square-cut piers.
Biete Medhani Alem
Church in Ethiopia. In Lalibela dated 1200.
Biete Medhani Alem (Beta Madhane Alem)
Beta Madhane Alem, the northeast corner, 1998.
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. 156, fig. 241. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 171; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
