Church of Saint George Ethiopia

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art. Visual details below describe the original material.

Rooftop view of the House of Saint George, Beta Giyorgis, in Lalibala, Ethiopia. The chuch is a cruciform structure with three equilateral crosses, one inside of the other, as roof decoration, and rises from a cruciform, triple-stepped platform. The church stands were it was carved from granite. For a more detailed description of the cruciform churches, see Churches in Rock: Early Christian Art in Ethiopia by George Gerster (London: Phadon, 1970), pp. 107-108.

Collection

Dimitrios Kyriazis photographs

Catalog date

[between 1950-1974]

Recorded places

Africa; Ethiopia

Cataloged creator or photographer

Kyriazis, Dimitrios, 1933-2001

Recorded subjects

Church; Religious buildings; Cultural landscapes

Format and extent

1 Negatives (photographic) (b&w, 35 mm.)

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