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Abuna Yemata Guh is a monolithic church located in the Hawzen woreda of the Tigray Region, Ethiopia.It is situated at a height of 2,580 metres (8,460 ft) [1] and has to be climbed on foot to reach.
Holy Trinity Cathedral, also known in Amharic as Kidist Selassie, is the highest ranking Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.It was built to commemorate the Ethiopian victory over Italian occupation and is an important place of worship in Ethiopia, alongside other cathedrals such as the Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion in Axum.
The tallest church building in the world is the Ulm Minster (161.5 m), the main Lutheran congregation in Ulm, Germany. The tallest Catholic , as well as the tallest domed church building, is the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (158 m) in Yamoussoukro , Ivory Coast .
Medhane Alem Cathedral (Amharic: መድኃኔዓለም ካቴድራል), whose name means "Saviour of the World", is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo cathedral in Bole Medhanealem, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Built in 1990's, it is the second largest cathedral in the whole of Africa and the largest in Ethiopia. [1]
One of the few Christian churches in Africa originating before European colonization of the continent, [5] the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church dates back to the Christianization of the Kingdom of Aksum in 330, [6] and has between 36 million and 51 million adherents in Ethiopia. [2] [3] [4] It is a founding member of the World Council of ...
The rock church Biete Medhane Alem in Lalibela, Ethiopia. Biete Medhane Alem is an Orthodox underground monolith rock-cut church located in Lalibela, Ethiopia. [1] It was built during the Zagwe dynasty. [2] It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Lalibela. [3] Biete Medhane Alem (House of the Saviour of the World) is home to the ...
The eleven Rock-hewn Churches of Lalibela are monolithic churches located in the western Ethiopian Highlands near the town of Lalibela, named after the late-12th and early-13th century King Gebre Meskel Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty, who commissioned the massive building project of 11 rock-hewn churches to recreate the holy city of Jerusalem in his own kingdom.
The Washa Mikael Rock-Hewn Church (Amharic: ዋሻ ሚካኤል [wä schä mi kä el] literally "The Cave of Michael") is a rock-hewn semi-monolithic church located in the Yeka district of Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia.