Medhane Alem Adi Church

There are several rock-hewn churches that make up the group Teka Tesfai but the Adi Kasho church completely fascinated me, for several reasons, one of them is the etchings on the rooftops, another is the corridor surrounding the entrance and another is its spectacular dimensions that I couldn't visit in more detail as I forgot my torch. Scholars in the field say it is the oldest church in Tigray and perhaps in all of Ethiopia and they date it as belong to the end of the 10th century or the beginning of the 11th. This leaves it very questionable what I was told about the antiquity of the church of Maryam Bezuhan.