Ethiopia - Medhane Alem:
The house of the Redeemer, the largest monolithic church in the world: 33x23 meters and high 11 meters. Surrounded by a colonnade of 34 pillars, with 28 mighty columns in the central nave and 4 aisles: real greek temple, solemn as the Parthenon and dug into the tuff. Austere, not just painted inside and lit by windows in the shape of a swastika or a Greek cross. Contains the symbolic sarcophagus of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. - See the Ethiopia map with a complete picture set.

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