Africa is a world of its own; a separate one, as anyone who has been there can confirm. I’m not referring to the northern strip, which after all exchanged influences with Mediterranean civilizations, but the sub-Saharan part, always dark and unknown. That’s why you can find things there that seem completely out of place but, […]
Churches
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The Most Inaccessible Church in the World is Excavated Inside a Sandstone Spire at an Altitude of 2,580 Meters (8,500 Feet)
In the Gheralta Mountains of the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia, inside a vertical rock wall at an altitude of 2,580 meters, lies the most inaccessible church in the world. It is called Abuna Yemata Guh, one of the nine saints who, according to tradition, arrived in northern Ethiopia between the late 5th and early […]
