What the record shows
The built (not hewn) church of Yemrehana Krestos, raised in alternating courses of wood and plastered stone in the Aksumite manner inside a cave north-east of Lalibela.
Source record notes
Original catalogue wording is retained below, including records brought together as one work.
- Yemrehana Krestos Church
The built (not hewn) church of Yemrehana Krestos, raised in alternating courses of wood and plastered stone in the Aksumite manner inside a cave north-east of Lalibela.
- Yemrehana Krestos Church
Building in Ethiopia. Recorded on Wikidata as a church in Lalibela dated 1100.
- Yemrehanna Krestos (Imrahanna Kristos) complex
Imrahanna Kristos, general view of the cave from beyond the outer wall, 2006.
- Place
- Lalibela · Amhara · Ethiopia
- Date
- c. 12th century (reign of King Yemrehanna Krestos)
- Structure or site
- Architecture & ruins
- Cited from
- David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 74, fig. 98. Evidence checked at source PDF p. 89; source PDF SHA-256 0ab32afc22f5ec6148e56f3187239e716a655623254dd934bdc873366fa4b174.
