| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Man with a donkey.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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People using a short cut through the town.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Typical Lalibela scene with a round house and mountains.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Donkey herders walking through town.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Street scene in the hills overlooking the South Eastern Group of churches.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Gabriel-Rufael
|
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Bet Gabriel-Rufael is one of the four churches of the South Eastern group.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Gabriel-Rufael
|
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A large hewn rock called The Way to Heaven leads to the church.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Gabriel-Rufael
|
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The church is surrounded by a moat-like ditch and was a fortress in the 7th century.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Gabriel-Rufael
|
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View through a hole in the rock to the church facade with its Aksumite windows.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Gabriel-Rufael
|
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Bet Gabriel-Rufael is unusual in Lalibela as it is entered over a bridge to its upper level.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Gabriel-Rufael
|
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Two carved crosses on the bridge leading to the church entrance.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Gabriel-Rufael
|
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The bridge joining the church to a series of tunnels and passages linking the South Eastern complex of churches.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Gabriel-Rufael
|
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Aksumite style window.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Gabriel-Rufael
|
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The interior is at different levels as it is actually two churches.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Gabriel-Rufael
|
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Priest with a crucifix.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Gabriel-Rufael
|
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Paintings, icons and prayer sticks.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Gabriel-Rufael
|
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The angel Gabriel with Madonna and child.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Tunnel entrance to reach three churches in the South Eastern Group from Bet Gabriel-Rufael.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Part of the connecting channels between churches.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Black Winged Lovebird at the South Eastern Complex.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Merkorios
|
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Carved area outside Bet Merkorios.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Merkorios
|
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Large icon of St George in his dragon killing pose in Bet Merkorios, a cave-like church carved into the rock.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Merkorios
|
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Glossy painting of an angel.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Merkorios
|
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Priest in the windowless church with paintings and icons.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Merkorios
|
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Faint fresco of the Three Wise Men dating from the 15th century.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Merkorios
|
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The church contains many paintings of St Abbo.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Merkorios
|
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St Abbo is always shown clothed in his own hair with lions and leopards in attendance.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Tunnels in the South Eastern complex of churches.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Carved walkways in the rock.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Amanuel
|
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Bet Amanuel is free standing and occupies its own pit.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Amanuel
|
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The steep steps and tunnel used to access the church entrance.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Amanuel
|
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Bet Amanuel is designed to resemble an Aksumite building.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Amanuel
|
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The door and windows are part of an elaborately carved building.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Amanuel
|
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Pool for baptisms.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Amanuel
|
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The entire structure is monolithic.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Amanuel
|
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The outer wall of the pit has many holes and chambers.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Amanuel
|
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Detail of the external wall of the church.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Amanuel
|
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The interior is decorated with bandings along the walls.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Amanuel
|
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Painting of pale blue-eyed Madonna and child.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Amanuel
|
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Columns, arches and the decorated ceiling. All are carved from the rock.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Walkway between churches of the South Eastern Group.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Tunnel leading to steps (South Eastern Group).
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Priest walking past a small pond.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Steps leading to one of the churches of the South Eastern Group.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Narrow tunnel in the South Eastern Group.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Tunnel and high walled ditch in the South Eastern Group.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Abba Libanos
|
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Bet Abba Libanos has a facade made of stone slabs. The roof and floor are attached to the rock.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
Site / Event : Bet Abba Libanos
|
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A large crack over the entrance.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Many levelled walkways (South Eastern Group).
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Trees and mountains.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Red Billed Firefinch.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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A tomb with a cross in a cemetary.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Flowering cacti.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Houses in the town.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Turbanned man.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Three women on their way to church.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Residential area.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Avocados, used for making juices.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Mangos for sale.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Father and daughter in a shop.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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The coffee ceremony involves making coffee from beans.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
District : Bugna
|
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Mountainous landscape in Bugna, the district close to Lalibela.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
District : Bugna
|
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Distinctive peak overlooking Lalibela.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
District : Bugna
|
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Settlement overlooked by a mountain.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
District : Bugna
|
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Small settlement with the round houses typical of the region.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
District : Bugna
|
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Isolated round houses.
|
2011 |
| Ethiopia |
City / Town : Lalibela
|
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Sunset in Lalibela.
|
2011 |
were added from 1 February 2025.