Abuna Yemata Guh

Abuna Yemata Guh is a monolithic church placed within the Hawzen woreda of the Tigray Region, Ethiopia. It is located at a height of 2,580 metres and needs to be climbed strolling to reach. It is great for its dome and wall paintings courting again to the 5th century and its architecture.

The church is one of the 35-unusual rock-hewn churches, the largest attention anywhere in Ethiopia. It is located within the erstwhile Gar'alta woreda. The front is reached by means of a steep and hazardous ascent with hand and footholds in the rock. Visitors should go a herbal stone bridge with a sheer drop of about 250m on both aspect, and thereafter a very last narrow wood footbridge. A strenuous ascent is accompanied by using a climb up a vertical rock wall depending totally on hand grips and foot holds topped with a stroll over a 50 cm huge ledge facing a cliff of 300 metres sheer drop. The status pillars are made from Enticho and Adigrat sandstones and considered because the remaining erosional remnants of a sandstone plateau that after blanketed the Precambrian basement.