Lalibela, Ethiopia

Name: Lalibela, Ethiopia
Address: Lalibela, Ethiopia

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I have unforgettable memories of being surrounded by hundreds of thousands of devoted pilgrims and making my way through tiny underground passageways to visit the rock-hewn cave Lalibela churches.

An intensely spiritual and historic town in the north of Ethiopia, Lalibela is home to eleven medieval monolithic cave churches carved out of rock and is one of the incredible UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Ethiopia. It is historically a place of significant importance and a place of devotion for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians and remains the most important place of pilgrimage in modern day Ethiopia.

While precise dating for the complex and its components has yet to be determined, scholars generally agree that it was constructed in four or five phases between the seventh and thirteenth centuries. Ethiopian tradition ascribes the whole complex’s construction to the reign of King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela