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  A priest at Kebran Gabriel Church shows one of its many ancient illustrated books; the church has the largest library in the Tana region.
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  Fine murals decorate the interior of the rock hewn church of Yohannes Maequddi, a two hour walk from Degum on a plateau of the Gheralta Mountains east of Debretsion.The spacious rectangular interior is best known for its ancient, well-preserved murals and paintings.
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• A priest holds one of the monastery's ancient illuminated texts.
• A priest holds a pair of the monastery's many ancient crosses.
• At a Lake Tana church a pilgrim reads a holy text of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church.
• An old Ethiopian Orthodox priest holds a large brass Coptic cross at the rock hewn church of Adadi Maryam, just south of Addis Abeba. This is the southernmost of Ethiopias rock hewn churches.
• Priests of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church pause at the entrance to the rock hewn church of Yohannes Maequddi, a two hour walk from Degum on a plateau of the Gheralta Mountains east of Debretsion.The access to the church is along a narrow cleft between glaring sandstone.
• Ethiopian style religious painting in the small Catholic church at Kalacha on the edge of the Chalbi Desert.
• Detail of the facade of Bet Giorgis,the most celebrated of Lalibela's churches.
• A partially blind pilgrim rests in the shade of a Zege Peninsula church.