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Religion/Faith King Lalibela set out to build a religious state - a spiritual center that would rival Jerusalem.

Imagination in History Lalibela's ambition to create a new state required political, religious, and architectural imagination.



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Human-Environment Interaction King Lalibela and his followers accomplished extraordinary architectural feats, overcoming the challenges of nature, building churches out of rock.


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