24/02/2023
Rock Carved Churches OF LALIBELA 🌍
The 11 medieval monolithic cave churches of this 13th-century ‘New Jerusalem’ are situated in a mountainous region in the heart of near a traditional village with circular-shaped dwellings. Lalibela is a high place of , still today a place of pilmigrage and devotion.
The site remains in use by the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church to this day, and it remains an important place of pilgrimage for Ethiopian Orthodox worshipers. It took 24 years to build all the 11 rock hewn churches.
This site is a UNESCO World Heritage site as it is a Black History Heritage site. Lalibela is one of the great wonders of the world as is the land of Ethiopia
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