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Unlike other high cathedrals in the world that need to be looked up, Lalibela's churches are carved from the rocks of the mountains themselves. Try to imagine again: pick an area on the ground as the roof of the church, then dig down the perimeter, cut a straight wall, and engrave the windows and decorations on the wall, the more you dig Deep into the steps of the church, and then hollowed out the interior, it became a church. The church itself is underground. Laribella stayed up for three days, in a dream, God directed him to a pilgrimage to Jerusalem and got the god: "Build a new Jerusalem city in Ethiopia and ask for a whole piece of rock church". So Laribela woke up and spent ten years on the rocky plateau of more than 2,000 meters above sea level in northern Ethiopia. He built eleven rock churches, which were later called Lalibela. . Since then, Lalibela has become a holy place for Ethiopians. La Ribeira's eleven rock churches are roughly divided into three groups, which are connected to each other by tunnels and corridors. Each church covers an area of tens to hundreds of square meters, which is equivalent to the height of three or four floors. Because the church was completely built in the rock of the mountain, the project was extremely difficult.
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