Lalibela
Lalibela is a rural town of 15,000 people in a stunning setting at an elevation of 2,600 m in the midst of the Lasta mountains in the eastern highlands of Northern Ethiopia.Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 8,480 residents
- Description: Town of Ethiopia
- Also known as: “Labibela”, “Lālibalā”, and “ላሊበላ / Lalibela”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Church of St. George and Biete Maryam.
Church of St. George
Church
The Church of Saint George is one of eleven rock-hewn monolithic churches in Lalibela, a town in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Originally named Roha, the historical and religious site was named Lalibela after the King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela of the Zagwe dynasty, who commissioned its construction.
Biete Maryam
Church
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Biete Maryam is one of the monolithic rock-cut Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Lalibela.
Biete Medhane Alem
Church
Biete Medhane Alem is an Orthodox underground monolith rock-cut church located in Lalibela, Ethiopia. It was built during the Zagwe dynasty. It is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site at Lalibela. Biete Medhane Alem is home to the Lalibela Cross.
Lalibela
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Amhara, Northern Ethiopia, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
12.0361° or 12° 2′ 10″ northLongitude
39.0457° or 39° 2′ 45″ eastPopulation
8,480Elevation
2,481 metres (8,140 feet)IATA airport code
LLIUnited Nations Location Code
ET LLIOpen location code
7G4X22PW+C7OpenStreetMap ID
node 71464974OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
332288Wikidata ID
Q207590
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Lalibela” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Lalibela”
- Amharic: “ላሊበላ”
- Arabic: “لاليبيلا”
- Aragonese: “Lalibela”
- Armenian: “Լալիբելա”
- Asturian: “Lalibela”
- Azerbaijani: “Lalibela”
- Bashkir: “Лалибэла”
- Basque: “Lalibela”
- Belarusian: “Лалібэла”
- Bengali: “লালিবেলা”
- Breton: “Lalibela”
- Bulgarian: “Лалибела”
- Burmese: “လာလီဘယ်လာမြို့”
- Catalan: “Lalibela”
- Cebuano: “Lalībela”
- Chinese: “拉利貝拉”
- Chinese: “拉利贝拉”
- Croatian: “Lalibela”
- Czech: “Lalibela”
- Danish: “Klippekirkerne i Lalibela”
- Dutch: “Lalibela”
- Dutch: “Roha”
- Egyptian Arabic: “لاليبيلا”
- Esperanto: “Lalibela”
- Esperanto: “Lalibelo”
- Finnish: “Lalibela”
- French: “Lalibela”
- French: “Lalibella”
- Galician: “Lalibela”
- German: “Lalibäla”
- German: “Lalibela”
- German: “Roha”
- Greek: “Λαλιμπέλα”
- Hebrew: “הכנסיות החצובות בסלע בלליבלה”
- Hebrew: “לליבלה”
- Indonesian: “Lalibela”
- Irish: “Eaglaisí Lalibela”
- Italian: “Lalibela”
- Japanese: “ラリベラ”
- Korean: “랄리벨라”
- Latin: “Lalibela”
- Lithuanian: “Lalibela”
- Lithuanian: “Lalibelos bažnyčios”
- Lithuanian: “Roha”
- Malayalam: “ലലിബെല”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lalibela”
- Norwegian: “Lalibela”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Lalibela”
- Oromo: “Laalibalaa”
- Persian: “کلیساهای سنگی لالیبلا”
- Persian: “کلیساهای کوهکند”
- Persian: “لالی بلا”
- Persian: “لالیبلا”
- Persian: “لالیبلا”
- Polish: “Lalibela”
- Portuguese: “Lalibela”
- Romanian: “Lalibela”
- Russian: “Лалибела”
- Russian: “Лалибэла”
- Serbian: “Lalibela”
- Serbian: “Лалибела”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lalibela”
- Slovak: “Lalibala”
- Slovak: “Lalibäla”
- Slovak: “Lalíbäla”
- Slovak: “Lalibela”
- Slovenian: “Lalibela”
- Spanish: “Lalibela”
- Swahili: “Lalibela, Ethiopia”
- Swahili: “Lalibela”
- Swedish: “Lalibela”
- Thai: “ลาลีเบอลา”
- Ukrainian: “Лалібела”
- Urdu: “لالیبیلا”
- Vietnamese: “Giáo đường nham thạch Lalibela”
- Vietnamese: “Lalibela”
- Vietnamese: “Nhà thờ tạc đá ở Lalibela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lalibela”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rock-Hewn Churches”
- Yue Chinese: “拉利貝拉”
- Zulu: “Lalibela”
- “Lalibela”
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