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Lalibela

Primarily 12th–13th centuries · Lasta highlands

Lalibela is a sacred site made up of eleven churches carved into the rock, connected by courtyards, trenches, and narrow passageways. The complex was built and changed over several periods.

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Lalibela archaeological features

David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009)

Lalibela, a wall built of large stone blocks, 2006. Located within the area of the modern town some 150 m northwest of Beta Mika’el, this is the only example of such walling at Lalibela that is not associated with a hypogeum.

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Lalibela Cross

Photo taken in the Bet Medhane Alem church, Lalibela, Ethiopia, with priest's permission.

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Lalibela Eastern Complex

David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009)

Lalibela, part of the peripheral trench northeast of Beta Emmanuel, looking south, 2006.

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Lalibela Northern Complex

David W. Phillipson, Ancient Churches of Ethiopia: Fourth–Fourteenth Centuries (2009)

Lalibela, the trench linking the Northern and Eastern Complexes, incorporating nuns’ residences, 1997.

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Arbaitu Ensessa, Lalibela

Wikimedia Commons

Arbaitu Ensessa (the Four Beasts), a rock-hewn church in Lalibela town outside the two main groups, built into the hillside above the market.

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Biete Abba Libanos, Lalibela

12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Wikimedia Commons

Lalibela

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Biete Amanuel, Lalibela

12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Wikimedia Commons

Lalibela

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Biete Denagel, Lalibela

12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Wikimedia Commons

Lalibela

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Biete Gabriel-Rufael, Lalibela

12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Wikimedia Commons

Lalibela

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Biete Ghiorgis (Church of Saint George), Lalibela

12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Wikimedia Commons

The cross-shaped monolithic church of Saint George, hewn downward into the volcanic scoria at Lalibela; the last and most refined of the town's eleven rock-hewn churches.

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Biete Golgotha–Biete Mikael Complex, Lalibela

12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Wikimedia Commons

The twin churches of Biete Golgotha and Biete Mikael (Debre Sina), joined northern-group sanctuaries; Golgotha shelters the reliefs of saints and the tomb traditionally held to be King Lalibela's.

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Biete Lehem, Lalibela

12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Wikimedia Commons

Lalibela

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Biete Mariam, Lalibela

12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Wikimedia Commons

Biete Mariam (House of Mary), among the earliest of the Lalibela churches, standing in a deep rock-cut courtyard of the northern group.

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Biete Maskal, Lalibela

12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Wikimedia Commons

Lalibela

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Biete Medhani Alem, Lalibela

12th–13th century (traditional attribution to the reign of King Lalibela) · Wikimedia Commons

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