Lalibela: Top Photos

Eleven churches carved straight down into living rock

This view of the 13th century rock-hewn church of Bet Giorgis shows the southwest corner of the structure and the south wall of the vast rectangular pit created when the church was carved out of livin
The southwest corner of Bet Giyorgis from the base of its excavated pit. The sheer rock walls surrounding the church reveal the scale of stone removal required — artisans carved away an entire hillside to free the monolithic structure. © A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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