At 8,000 feet, on the central plateau of Ethiopia, stand 11 churches, each carved from a single, gigantic, block of stone. No bricks, no mortar, no concrete, no lumber, just rock sculpted into ...

Ethiopia has always held me in ... Its people carved subterranean churches out of solid rock and built mysterious towers of stone. The country’s mythology included serving as keepers of the ...

Officially Christian since 330AD, Ethiopia claims to be the oldest ... Far below, a new wave of visitors were passing through the church's towering stone entryways, lintels that have been worn ...

the creation of a new Jerusalem in Ethiopia for Christians who could not make the pilgrimage to the original. As part of this holy city, Lalibela envisioned a dozen churches carved from stone ...

She will also show photographs from Ethiopia, including of the carved stone churches of Lalibela where the ancient edifices were hewn, sometimes three stories deep into the volcanic rock.

The Ethiopian Forest Churches are exactly what the Benedict ... stones out of the surrounding farm fields and build a dry-stack stone wall around the forest. Meg raised money for a gate and ...

Ethiopia was one of the world’s first ... He revels in the age-old traditions, such as ringing the church bells, which are made of stone and echo across the countryside to his parishioners.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia >> Ethiopia has always ... Its people carved subterranean churches out of solid rock and built mysterious towers of stone. The country’s mythology included serving as ...

Ethiopia was one of the world’s first ... He revels in the age-old traditions, such as ringing the church bells, which are made of stone and echo across the countryside to his parishioners.