Biete Lehem, Lalibela

Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia

Bethlehem, exterior view from the northeast, 1998. The chamber seen in fig. 209 is inside the semi-isolated cylindrical rock seen in the left foreground, above which and to the left are remains of a wall built of large stone blocks. In the background, behind Bethlehem, the trapezoidal court of Beta Gabriel-Rafa’el is visible with, to the right, the wall protecting its northeastern entrance.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 137, fig. 210.

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Place: Lalibela, Amhara, Ethiopia
Source: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009)
Book: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries
Source reference: p. 137, fig. 210.
Subject date: 12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela)
Type: architectural plate

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