St. Lalibela Library

St. Lalibela Library is a library in Amhara, Ethiopia. St. Lalibela Library is situated nearby to the government office Debre Zeyit Kebele Administration Office, as well as near Meskel Square.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Biete Medhane Alem and Biete Maryam.

Biete Medhane Alem

Church

Photo: Sailko, CC BY 3.0.

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. Biete Medhane Alem is situated 120 metres southwest of St. Lalibela Library.

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 Maryam is situated 160 metres southwest of St. Lalibela Library.

Biete Ghiorgis

Church

Photo: Sailko, CC BY 3.0.

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 Ghiorgis is situated 480 metres southwest of St. Lalibela Library.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lalibela.

Lalibela

Photo: A. Davey, CC BY 2.0.

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.

St. Lalibela Library

Type: Library
Category: education
Location: Amhara, Ethiopia, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude

12.03442° or 12° 2′ 4″ north

Longitude

39.04453° or 39° 2′ 40″ east

Open location code

7G4X22MV+QR

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5901715436

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=library

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