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Lalibela
... dass wir nur einen Tag haben, ich hätte mir gerne noch mehr angesehen, denn auch das Innere der Kirchen ist meisterlich aus dem Felsen geschlagen. Man kann sich kaum vorstellen, welch ein Aufwand es mit der Technik des Mittelalters gewesen sein muss, solche Bauwerke zu schaffen
Wenn man die Kirchen besichtigt trifft man auf einen Berufszweig, den ich schon bei der Besichtigung ...
Mule ride to Monastery
... our final church, cut into a cliff, so as to be left free-standing in a cave. All completely remarkable and again, impossible to do justice in 320MB snaps. With the passage of time and the general tidying-up that has gone on for a hundred years, the public areas have largely been swept-clean of minor architectural detail and monkish paraphernalia. What an experience it must have been to be a pilgrim here 800 years ago. The activity must have been feverish ...
Lalibela - worth the journey
... We landed 25 minutes after take-off - saving ourselves an 8 hour drive (the roads aren't perfect, and follow the contours). The half hour drive up to Lalibela gave us a closer look at what we'd been flying over.......farms. Life as a subsistence farmer here is tough, very tough. They own next to nothing that hasn't grown locally and their rags are pitiful, but I've been struck by the self-respect and dignity of the people. Salutary indeed. And so to the site. For those that ...
A thunderstorm in new Jerusalem
... surrounding mountain, while others are 'semi-monolithic”, built into the side of the mountain. All of the churches have features which are heavy with Ethiopian Orthodox Christian symbolism – the Trinity, St. Mary, the 12 Apostles, the nine Syrian saints who spread Christianity in Ethiopia and a variety of other saints, depictions of miracles and various biblical stories. The largest monolithic church, Bet Medhane Alem is said to have been designed to resemble the ...
The churches of Lalibela
... Lalibela had a theme going on in his designs, and it was assumed that the trilogy theme continued when he built three churches next to each other. The small churches of Bet Maryam (House of Mary), Bet Meskal (House of the Cross) and Bet Danaghel (House of the virgin) were once again examples of King Lalibela's intricate carving abilities. In the present, we still couldn't get over the genius of King Lalibela, and were thoroughly enjoying the guided tour of these little ...
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