HERITAGE RECORD · 018

Rock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela

拉利贝拉岩石教堂

The official record, selection criteria and sourced cultural context.

World Heritage record

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.

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Wikidata reference

QIDQ642979 ↗

Inception1300

Administrative areaQ6494931

Named afterQ207590

WikipediaRock-Hewn Churches, Lalibela ↗

Chinese Wikipedia拉利贝拉岩石教堂 ↗

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Selection criteria

This property was inscribed under the following World Heritage Convention criteria.

(i)A masterpiece of human creative genius.

(ii)An important interchange of human values in architecture, technology, arts, town planning or landscape design.

(iii)A unique or exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or civilisation.

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