Entrance, Bete Medhane Alem, Lalibela, Woldia, Ethiopia, October 2007

Entrance, Bete Medhane Alem, Lalibela, Woldia, Ethiopia, October 2007

Looking from the original ground level down to the walkway-level entrance to Bete Medhane Alem (‘Church of the Medicine of the World,’ a name for Christ), the largest church in Lalibela. The pillars have been partially restored with quarried stone.