A quintessential Addis Ababa experience begins at a place like Tomoca Coffee on Wavel Street, one of the city's original ...
Their building is attributed to King Lalibela who set out to construct in the 12th century a ‘New Jerusalem’, after Muslim conquests halted Christian pilgrimages to the holy Land. Lalibela flourished ...
King Gebre Meskel Lalibela wanted to build a second "Jerusalem" in Lalibela, a town in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia, on the grounds that the road to Jerusalem was not safe.