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Lalibela
There is a small town in the middle of the Ethiopian highlands. It's surrounded by a rocky arid area. Yet here they say and I include myself among them, you will find the 8th wonder of the world. The town is known as Lalibela, after a legendary ruler, who according to legend was, while in Jerusalem, taken to heaven by an angel, where God gave him a vision of churches such as no one had ever seen before and ordered him to build them. It is said that angels came at night and helped with the construction.
Looking from the entrance on top of the mount, the first impression of the church is its giant cross-shaped roof. A few steps further, the twelve-meter-high, cross-shaped church can be seen standing tall and upright in the square hole below.
Try, if you can, to imagine a cathedral carved into a pit of solid rock? How would you make it? Shape the exterior of the building. Make some doors and windows. Then carve into the rock to form the inside the building to making, rooms, an alter, passage ways. Using only hand tools. An awesome feat, yet here in Lalibela there are eleven of them
There is a small town in the middle of the Ethiopian highlands. It's surrounded by a rocky arid area. Yet here they say and I include myself among them, you will find the 8th wonder of the world. The town is known as Lalibela, after a legendary ruler, who according to legend was, while in Jerusalem, taken to heaven by an angel, where God gave him a vision of churches such as no one had ever seen before and ordered him to build them. It is said that angels came at night and helped with the construction.
Looking from the entrance on top of the mount, the first impression of the church is its giant cross-shaped roof. A few steps further, the twelve-meter-high, cross-shaped church can be seen standing tall and upright in the square hole below.
Try, if you can, to imagine a cathedral carved into a pit of solid rock? How would you make it? Shape the exterior of the building. Make some doors and windows. Then carve into the rock to form the inside the building to making, rooms, an alter, passage ways. Using only hand tools. An awesome feat, yet here in Lalibela there are eleven of them
Lalibela
There is a small town in the middle of the Ethiopian highlands. It's surrounded by a rocky arid area. Yet here they say and I include myself among them, you will find the 8th wonder of the world. The town is known as Lalibela, after a legendary ruler, who according to legend was, while in Jerusalem, taken to heaven by an angel, where God gave him a vision of churches such as no one had ever seen before and ordered him to build them. It is said that angels came at night and helped with the construction.
Looking from the entrance on top of the mount, the first impression of the church is its giant cross-shaped roof. A few steps further, the twelve-meter-high, cross-shaped church can be seen standing tall and upright in the square hole below.
Try, if you can, to imagine a cathedral carved into a pit of solid rock? How would you make it? Shape the exterior of the building. Make some doors and windows. Then carve into the rock to form the inside the building to making, rooms, an alter, passage ways. Using only hand tools. An awesome feat, yet here in Lalibela there are eleven of them
There is a small town in the middle of the Ethiopian highlands. It's surrounded by a rocky arid area. Yet here they say and I include myself among them, you will find the 8th wonder of the world. The town is known as Lalibela, after a legendary ruler, who according to legend was, while in Jerusalem, taken to heaven by an angel, where God gave him a vision of churches such as no one had ever seen before and ordered him to build them. It is said that angels came at night and helped with the construction.
Looking from the entrance on top of the mount, the first impression of the church is its giant cross-shaped roof. A few steps further, the twelve-meter-high, cross-shaped church can be seen standing tall and upright in the square hole below.
Try, if you can, to imagine a cathedral carved into a pit of solid rock? How would you make it? Shape the exterior of the building. Make some doors and windows. Then carve into the rock to form the inside the building to making, rooms, an alter, passage ways. Using only hand tools. An awesome feat, yet here in Lalibela there are eleven of them
