Esse: "Noah's Ark" is surrounded by spiritual holes and there are still air-dried ankles inside!

Esse: "Noah's Ark" is surrounded by meditation holes and there are still air-dried ankles inside!
St George's Cathedral on the southwest side of the Jordan River

In the same year, King Lalibela used 20,000 people to spend 11 years carving out 11 rock churches. The 11 medieval churches are roughly divided into 3 groups, separated on both sides of the Jordan River. The so-called rock churches are not built of rocks. Naturally speaking, they would not be called "African miracles." The secret is that these churches are either carved from large rocks or carved from half-body rocks, and none of them exceed the ground level. Churches carved out of monoliths descend from the ground and are like large, deep buildings with tall buildings. These buildings are usually 7 to 12 meters high, seemingly independent, but there is a network of tunnels connected by a church. Leading to another, forming an underground world.

This kind of project is naturally extremely difficult: the craftsmen must first find a suitable and complete crack-free giant rock on the hillside, remove the surface floating soil and soft rock, and then cut out the trenches with a depth of 12m to 15m in the surrounding area. Completely separated from the entire mountain. Then, in this huge rock, walls, roofs, altars, pillars, doors and windows are set aside. Extreme care is taken to cut away the extra stones in the rocks to form a space, and finally to form a space. The stone walls are beautifully sculpted and polished to create a church with a special texture and look.

What's even more amazing is that these buildings have an accurate drainage system. All doors, windows, foundations, floors, roofs, gutters, cornices, lintels, windowsills, etc., have the ability to withstand rain and rain.

The third group of churches in the Lalibela Rock Church is also on the south bank of the Jordan River, but there is only one church. She is the most famous church of St. George's Bete Giorigis (House of St. George), which is located on the southwest side of the Jordan River, and other The two church groups are independent. Of the 11 churches in all three of Lalibela, the most shocking is the Church of St. George, also known as the Mystical Cross Church. St. George's Church is the later work of King Lalibela, and is also the pinnacle of it. Although it is classified as a second group of churches, its location makes it a certain distance away from the other 10 churches, and this somewhat detached location seems to set off its uniqueness.

St. George's Church is carved from a top to bottom with a huge stone, 15 meters high, showing a huge three-dimensional cross. Moreover, as the stone is hard to weather, UNESCO has not built a protective roof for it. Fortunately for this reason, people can now see a complete, purely original state of St. George's Church. From the outside, the church is divided into three floors and the windows are still in Axum style. There is no pillar support inside the church, the entire church carved and cut into one, the momentum is rainbow!

St. George's Cathedral interior

According to research, this church symbolizes "Noah's Ark." The Bible says that the Noah's Ark is divided into three layers. However, because it is a "boat," people naturally think of the appearance of an ordinary ship. However, people of the millennium ago, relying on the sincere heart of religion, were unconstrained. Imagination and unparalleled exquisite craftsmanship are the direct integration of an abstract religious image in a realistic building, the interpretation of Noah’s Ark into a cross, and the entire building’s appearance is straight and precise, with no roughness or simpleness. .

The labyrinth of Lalibela Rock Church has a very advanced drainage system

There are many such mini-holes in the mountains. These are the habitats of the practitioners. They drill into these little holes that they can hardly turn around and talk to God. Village women tried, these holes are their own size, the emperor's body is definitely not drill into it. It can be seen that if you want to practice, you have to lose weight first.

To practice in such a small hole is too challenging.