Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela (Ensemble)

Wollo / Lasta, Lasta, Ethiopia

Lalibela, general view, looking east from near Beta Gabriel-Rafa’el — just visible at the left margin of the photograph — c. 1970. The cylindrical two-storey houses with conical thatched roofs were characteristic but are now rapidly disappearing. The peaks of Asheten form the horizon to the right.David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2009), p. 122, fig. 187.

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Place: Wollo / Lasta, Lasta, Ethiopia
Source: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009)
Book: Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries
Source reference: p. 122, fig. 187.
Subject date: 1300
Type: architectural plate

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