No bricks, no mortar, no concrete, no lumber, just rock sculpted into architecture.
At 8,000 feet, on the central plateau of Ethiopia stand 11 churches, each carved from a single, gigantic, block of stone. 800 years ago, an Ethiopian king ordered a new capital for Christians. If faith is a mystery, there are few places in the Christian world where the mystery is deeper than in Lalibela. Inside Lalibela, the mysterious holy site visited by 200,000 Ethiopian Christians on their annual pilgrimage 13:29
