hopePlate 022 · Lalibela, Ethiopia

Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela

Churches cut down from living rock, a New Jerusalem in the highlands.

12th–13th c. · King Lalibela's builders · Africa

The chamber score

Tewahedo chant

Ethiopian Orthodox · Lalibela

Churches cut downward. The chant was already underground.

An original chamber arrangement in the climate of the work. The recording is not a copy. It is the room answering.

Why it is here

The UNESCO monolithic churches, among the world's great sacred architectures.

Commission the full chamber

This monument is in the atlas. The rebuild can be written for you.

Ask the studio to reconstruct Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela through hope — or shift it into another corridor.

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Shift the feeling

What if Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela was rebuilt as something else?

Ask the architect

One question. Stay in the room.