Lalibela

Lalibela is a city in Amhara Region, Ethiopia famous for its rock-reduce monolithic churches. The entire of Lalibela is a large antiquity of the medieval and publish-medieval civilization of Ethiopia. Lalibela is considered one of Ethiopia's holiest cities, 2nd only to Axum, and a center of pilgrimage. Unlike Axum, the populace of Lalibela is sort of absolutely Ethiopian Orthodox Christian.

During the reign of Gebre Mesqel Lalibela, a member of the Zagwe dynasty who dominated Ethiopia inside the late twelfth century and early thirteenth century, the contemporary city of Lalibela became referred to as Roha. The saint-king become named because a swarm of bees is said to have surrounded him at his beginning, which his mom took as a sign of his future reign as emperor of Ethiopia. The names of numerous places within the current city and the general layout of the rock-reduce churches themselves are stated to imitate names and patterns discovered by way of Lalibela at some stage in the time he spent as a children in Jerusalem and the Holy Land.