Located in the northern shore of Lake Tana, 60km southwest of Gondar, Gorgora is ... century Saint and Church Father Gregory the Illuminator, who is a prominent figure in Ethiopian Orthodox ...

Abuna Yemata Guh is one of more than 100 rock-hewn churches in northern Ethiopia, but it’s the ... has preserved the church’s sixth-century paintings, made from animal fat.

The lips of generations of pilgrims have smoothed the door frames on its millennia-old rock-hewn churches. Inside, naked bulbs illuminate intricately gilded paintings of Ethiopia’s four sainted ...