Picture of Pillar of Bet Maryam, with Ten Commandments and story of excavations hidden by veil | Travel Photography | Lalibela | Ethiopia | Africa

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Ethiopia This picture shows Pillar of Bet Maryam, with Ten Commandments and story of excavations hidden by veil. It was taken on a travel to Lalibela, Ethiopia, Africa. It is one of the 6595 of travel photographs you can find on Traveladventures.org. You can click on the picture to see more pictures of Lalibela. You can also send it as a free electronic postcard or download it for free, by following the links under the picture. Alternatively, you can follow the tags under the picture to find other travel pictures of a particular theme, or switch to another language. Enjoy your travel with pictures from all over the world! Show on map Locate Lalibela Northern Cluster on map Other languages: \| \| \| \| Categories Architecture Art Bridges City & Cityscape Coastline Culture & Religion Doors & Windows Events History Landscape Nature People Transportation Various	Picture of Pillar of Bet Maryam, with Ten Commandments and story of excavations hidden by veil (Lalibela, Ethiopia) Pillar inside Bet Maryam, supposedly containing Ten Commandments and history of Lalibela Send image of Pillar of Bet Maryam, with Ten Commandments and story of excavations hidden by veil as a free postcard Download picture of Pillar of Bet Maryam, with Ten Commandments and story of excavations hidden by veil Purchase Pillar of Bet Maryam, with Ten Commandments and story of excavations hidden by veil (Ethiopia) Normally the start of a tour in Lalibela, the northern cluster of churches is the most extensive and has some very fine examples of rock hewn churches. After walking around this largest monolithic rock-hewn church in the world, the guide motions that I can follow him. Inside, the church gives the impression of a cathedral, with a high ceiling, pillars, with graves carved in the floor. Even though simple in design, the church amazes by its size. From here, a short tunnel leads to Bet Maryam, probably the oldest church in town. It is a smaller, more elaborate monolithic church. Outside, a small pool covered with floating plants in which infertile women are dipped during Ethiopian Christmas, and in the rock walls contain two small chapels. Bet Maryam itself is one of the finest decorated churches in Lalibela, carvings in the ceiling, the walls and the columns. One of its pillars covered in a veil - under it, there supposedly are inscriptions with the Ten Commandments in Greek and Ge'ez, as well as the secret of how the churches in Lalibela were excavated. Priests insist that the pillar glowed for centuries, and that lifting the veil is too dangerous. While this is bad news for researchers, it further adds to the mystery surrouding the Lalibela churches. Read more about: Lalibela Northern Cluster Tags for this picture: \| \| \| \| Africa Asia christian buddhist church cathedral columns lighthouse Ethiopia Bolivia Lalibela Caserta Lalibela Northern Cluster Mekong Delta
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