Lalibela

Ethiopia - Northern Ethiopia

Comprising eleven churches and two chapels, Ethiopia’s labyrinthine ā€˜New Jerusalemā€™, excavated by King Lalibela in the 12th century and still in active use today, has been dubbed the “Eighth Wonder of the Worldā€.

Hand-carved into the rock flake by painstaking flake, a process that would have required around 40,000 man-years to complete, Lalibela represents the apex of an Ethiopian church-excavating tradition that dates to the arrival of Christianity circa 350 AD.

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