What the record shows
Biete Maskal (House of the Cross), a broad low chapel carved into the northern wall of Biete Mariam's courtyard.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- Biete Maskal, Lalibela
Biete Maskal (House of the Cross), a broad low chapel carved into the northern wall of Biete Mariam's courtyard.
- Bete Meskel
Church in Ethiopia. In Lalibela dated 1200.
- Biete Maskal (Beta Masqal)
Beta Masaqal, the arcaded exterior in the north wall of Beta Maryam’s court, 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. 166, fig. 256. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 181; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
