a small town in northern Ethiopia that’s home to 11 spectacular churches carved both inside and out from a single rock some 900 years ago. The chiseled creations have turned this mountain town ...

perched in Ethiopia’s Lasta mountains at 2,600m. The town is home to 11 medieval rock-cut churches so revered, Unesco included them on the original World Heritage list in 1978 – a list of then ...

The church's three walls are made to detach from the rocky mountain. But on its western side, the roof is connected with the rock. After the expansion of Christianity in Ethiopia, among other ...

Carved into the sandstone Gheralta mountains up to 1,600 ... network of Ethiopian cave churches. The network of Christian places of worship was carved into the rock in Tigray between the 5th ...

Peter may have built his church upon a rock, but the ruling king in 12th century Ethiopia decided to build ... will pilgrimage for days on foot up windy mountain roads to get to the site.

Soloda Mountains ... with the Millennium Development Ethiopia, Koraro Cluster. He explained his impression about Gheralta as follows; "The rock-hewn churches give each tourist a chance to visit ...

Buried deep into the rock in the highlands of northern Ethiopia ... But on a lonely mountain slope around 60km south of Lalibela, a devoted monk and two church deacons are busy chipping away ...

a small town in northern Ethiopia that’s home to 11 spectacular churches carved both inside and out from a single rock some 900 years ago. The chiseled creations have turned this mountain town ...