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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Kenya to the south, South Sudan to the west, and Sudan to the northwest. Ethiopia covers a land area of ...
The Church of Saint George in Lalibela, Ethiopia dates to around 1200 AD. [25] [26] The church is dedicated to the saint, and is one of eleven monolithic churches in Lalibela, a holy city in Ethiopia and a site of pilgrimage. [26] St. George's Cathedral in Addis Ababa is also dedicated to the saint, and the city's main football club is Saint ...