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1. The main obelisk in Axum is over 1,700 years old, 24 meters tall, made of granite weighing 160 tonnes and ornamented with false doors and window designs carved into the hard stone.
2. Lalibela contains 11 medieval monolithic cave churches carved entirely out of rock in the 13th century to serve as a "New Jerusalem", located near traditionally circular village dwellings.
3. Fasil Ghebbi was the 16th-17th century walled fortress-city of Emperor Fasilides containing palaces, churches and unique buildings reflecting Hindu, Arab and Baroque influences, later transformed by Jesuit missionaries.
1. The main obelisk in Axum is over 1,700 years old, 24 meters tall, made of granite weighing 160 tonnes and ornamented with false doors and window designs carved into the hard stone.
2. Lalibela contains 11 medieval monolithic cave churches carved entirely out of rock in the 13th century to serve as a "New Jerusalem", located near traditionally circular village dwellings.
3. Fasil Ghebbi was the 16th-17th century walled fortress-city of Emperor Fasilides containing palaces, churches and unique buildings reflecting Hindu, Arab and Baroque influences, later transformed by Jesuit missionaries.
1. The main obelisk in Axum is over 1,700 years old, 24 meters tall, made of granite weighing 160 tonnes and ornamented with false doors and window designs carved into the hard stone.
2. Lalibela contains 11 medieval monolithic cave churches carved entirely out of rock in the 13th century to serve as a "New Jerusalem", located near traditionally circular village dwellings.
3. Fasil Ghebbi was the 16th-17th century walled fortress-city of Emperor Fasilides containing palaces, churches and unique buildings reflecting Hindu, Arab and Baroque influences, later transformed by Jesuit missionaries.
1. Axum 2. Lalibela 3. Fasil Gonder The main Obelisk of Axum (Amharic: ?) is supposedly 1,700 years old, 24 meters tall (79-foot) is made of granite, and weighs 160 tonnes.
It is ornamented with two false doors at the
base and features decorations resembling windows on all sides.
How could they have shaped hard granite
that long ago, and on that scale? Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela The 11 medieval monolithic cave churches of this 13th- century 'New Jerusalem' are situated in a mountainous region in the heart of Ethiopia near a traditional village with circular-shaped dwellings.
Lalibela is a high place of Ethiopian Christianity, still
today a place of pilmigrage and devotion. Fasil building
Fasil Ghebbi, Gondar Region
In the 16th and 17th centuries, the fortress-city of Fasil Ghebbi was the residence of the Ethiopian emperor Fasilides and his successors. Surrounded by a 900-m-long wall, the city contains palaces, churches, monasteries and unique public and private buildings marked by Hindu and Arab influences, subsequently transformed by the Baroque style brought to Gondar by the Jesuit missionaries.