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.

 Ethiopia

Amhara Region

N12 1 45.66 E39 2 25.512

Date of Inscription: 1978

Criteria: (i)(ii)(iii)

Ref: 18

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Tiya

 

Tiya

Tiya is among the most important of the roughly 160 archaeological sites discovered so far in the Soddo region, south of Addis Ababa. The site contains 36 monuments, including 32 carved stelae covered with symbols, most of which are difficult to decipher. They are the remains of an ancient Ethiopian culture whose age has not yet been precisely determined.

Ethiopia

Sodo woreda, Gurage zone, Southern Nation Nationalities & Peoples Region

N8 26 5.676 E38 36 43.56

Date of Inscription: 1980

Criteria: (i)(iv)

Ref: 12

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