By Max Bearak | Dec. 1, 2019. Max Bearak/The Washington Post. Abuna Yemata Guh is one of more than 100 rock-hewn churches in northern Ethiopia, but it's the...
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Discover Abuna Yemata Guh in East Tigray, Ethiopia: Reaching the "Church in the Sky" requires scaling the cliff face of a sandstone pinnacle...
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The extraordinary church in Tigray, has been on the clifftop since the 5th Century and devotees have carried newborns and even corpses up to...
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Maybe you've read about the Abuna Yemata Guh, the “Church in the sky,” recently. Carved in a cliff by St. Abuna Yemata in the 6th century,...
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Scaling death-defying heights and sheer cliff faces to reach extraordinary paintings within churches in remote areas of northern Ethiopia.
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Ethiopia is home to hundreds of churches carved out of rock. There are more than 120 in Tigray, and 11 in Lalibela (legend says these were...
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Philip Lee Harvey recently went to Ethiopia for Lonely Planet to photograph the world's most inaccessible church... 2500 feet up and carved...
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Every day, this Ethiopian priest, Fr Haylesilassie Kahsay, walks for two hours and then climbs a sheer cliff to reach his church. Abuna...
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Visiting the country's Orthodox Christian churches carved into cliff faces soaring more than 2,000m above sea level is an epiphanic...
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Father Assefa, 64, has climbed a 1,000-foot cliff to reach the Abuna Yemata Guh church every day for 50 years. (Max Bearak/The Washington...
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