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Eleven churches carved straight down into living rock

According to the Bradt Guide Ethiopia by Phillip Briggs (4th ed., November 2005), "Bet Mercurios is a cave church. It was orginally used for secular purposes, and may well be around 1,400 years old.
According to the Bradt Guide Ethiopia by Phillip Briggs (4th ed., November 2005), "Bet Mercurios is a cave church. It was orginally used for secular purposes, and may well be around 1,400 years old. © A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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