What the record shows
Bilbila Chirkos, a rock-hewn church of the Lasta hills north-west of Lalibela, entered through a cut courtyard and famed for the bees kept within its walls.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- Bilbila Chirkos
Bilbila Chirkos, a rock-hewn church of the Lasta hills north-west of Lalibela, entered through a cut courtyard and famed for the bees kept within its walls.
- Bilbila Chirkos (Bilbala Tcherqos)
Bilbala Tcherqos, the exterior, west end, 2006.
- Place
- Lalibela · Amhara · Ethiopia
- Date
- Not recorded in the catalogue
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Cited from
- David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 111, fig. 165. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 126; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
