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The Church of Saint George (Amharic: ቤተ ጊዮርጊስ, romanized: Betä Giyorgis) is one of eleven rock-hewn monolithic churches in Lalibela, a town in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Originally named Roha ( Warwar ), the historical and religious site was named Lalibela after the King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty , who ...
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.
Church of St. George (Bete Giyorgis) The most famous of the edifices is the cross-shaped Church of St. George. Tradition credits its construction to the Zagwe dynasty King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, who was a devout Orthodox Tewahedo Christian. The medieval monolithic churches of this 12th-century "New Jerusalem" are situated in a mountainous ...
The whole of Lalibela is a large and important site for the antiquity, medieval, and post-medieval civilization of Ethiopia. [1] To Christians, Lalibela is one of Ethiopia's holiest cities, and a center of pilgrimage. Ethiopia was one of the earliest nations to adopt Christianity in the first half of the 4th century, and its historical roots ...
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -Forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have taken control of the town of Lalibela, whose famed rock-hewn churches are a United Nations World Heritage Site, and residents were ...
EDIT: the church paintings of Lalibela date to the 12th-13th century AD. See the following source: Teferi, Dawit (2015) [1995], "A Short History of Ethiopian Church Art", in Briggs, Philip, Ethiopia, Chalfont St Peter: Bradt Travel Guides, p. 242, ISBN 978-1-84162-922-3. This is just part of a panel depicting St. George slaying the dragon.
It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Lalibela. [1] Inside the church, 2007. Like the other churches of Lalibela, its precise date of construction is unknown, although it was built no earlier than the 7th century AD (during the Kingdom of Axum) and no later than the 13th century AD (during the Solomonic dynasty and Ethiopian Empire). [2]
The apostle St. Matthew is said to have died in Ethiopia. [5] The rock-hewn Church of Saint George in Lalibela is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. In 2016, the government stated that 67% of the country is Christian (44% of the population belonging to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church). [6]