Church, carved in the rock (5 photos)

Lalibela - a place in Ethiopia, where the fourth century Christians live.
Once tamoshnem monarch had a dream in which God told him: "We cut out from the rocks and the church here will be a new Jerusalem."
In Lalibela eleven churches carved into volcanic rocks and they are all connected to each other by tunnels.
Church of Saint George - the most beautiful of them.












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