Church of Saint George Ethiopia
odd: label: General
content: Title source: Archives staff; title not provided by photographer.
label: General
content: Image indexed by negative number.
name: label: Creator
content: Kyriazis, Dimitrios, 1933-2001
label: Collection Photographer
content: Kyriazis, Dimitrios, 1933-2001
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Ethiopia
topic: label: Topic
content: Church
label: Topic
content: Religious buildings
label: Topic
content: Cultural landscapes
creator: label: Creator
content: Kyriazis, Dimitrios, 1933-2001
setName: label: See more items in
content: Dimitrios Kyriazis photographs
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Negative (b&w, 35 mm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: [between 1950-1974]
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1999-005, Item EEPA 1999-051815-26
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives
label: Type
content: Black-and-white negatives
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Black-and-white negatives
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: 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.