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Biete Amanuel is an underground

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monolith rock-cut church located in

Lalibela Lalibela ( am, ላሊበላ) is a town in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Located in the Lasta district and North Wollo Zone, it is a tourist site for its famous rock-cut monolithic churches. The whole of Lalibela is a large and important site ...

Ethiopia Ethiopia, , om, Itiyoophiyaa, so, Itoobiya, ti, ኢትዮጵያ, Ítiyop'iya, aa, Itiyoppiya officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country in the Horn of Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the ...

. The edifice was built during the

Kingdom of Axum The Kingdom of Aksum ( gez, መንግሥተ አክሱም, ), also known as the Kingdom of Axum or the Aksumite Empire, was a kingdom centered in Northeast Africa and South Arabia from Classical antiquity to the Middle Ages. Based primarily in wha ...

. It is part of

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at Lalibela. Biete Amanuel (House of Emmanuel) is possibly the former royal chapel.

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Amanuel Amanuel is a given name or a surname. Notable people with the given name include: * Amanuel Gebrezgabihier (born 1994), Eritrean cyclist *Amanuel Melles (born 1993), Eritrean academic based in Canada *Amanuel Mesel Amanuel Mesel Tikue (born 29 ...

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