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Biete Amanuel

Ethiopia

Biete Amanuel
Biete Amanuel. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Biete Amanuel ('House of Emmanuel') is an underground Ethiopian Orthodox monolith rock-cut church located in Lalibela, Ethiopia. The edifice was built during the Kingdom of Aksum. It is part of a World Heritage Site, the Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela. Biete Amanuel is possibly the former royal chapel.

Church data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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