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Eleven churches carved straight down into living rock

This lovely little window is at the corner of the 13th century rock-hewn Church of Bet Gabriel-Rufael in Lalibela, Ethiopia. It is one of "the very unusual Aksumite windows with little pointed arches
This lovely little window is at the corner of the 13th century rock-hewn Church of Bet Gabriel-Rufael in Lalibela, Ethiopia. It is one of "the very unusual Aksumite windows with little pointed… © A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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