LALIBELA ROCK HEWN CHURCHES - ETHIOPIA
Lalibela (13th-century ) is the most well known and marveled of all the Zagwe kings.
He is credited for building the eleven famous rock-hewn churches in his capital city,
known originally as Roha but renamed as Lalibela after his death .
Lalibela is a high place of Ethiopian Christianity, still today a place of pilmigrage and devotion.
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