Video: You need to see this 900-year-old church carved from a mountain in Ethiopia which Reno Omokri visited

Former Presidential aide, Reno Omokri has shared a video of his visit to a 900-year-old rock hewn Lalibela church in Ethiopia.

Omokri visited to the historical cum spiritual site and prayed for the Leah Sharibu, the Christian Chibok school girl who whose abductors refused to free when her mates were being freed because she refused to denounce her Christian faith.

The amazing prayer site Omokri visited is one church out of the eleven churches built 900 years ago in Ethiopia. The incredible structures were carved out from rocks, from top to the buttom.

The ruling king in 12th century Ethiopia decided to the build churches out of rocks. During his reign 900 years ago, King Lalibela commissioned the building of the set of eleven churches which he hoped would be the new ‘New Jerusalem.’

At that time, the ‘New Jerusalem’ became necessary and was created after Muslim conquests made travel to the Holy Land in Israel dangerous.

King Lalibela built the 11 churches as an alternate pilgrimage site to the Holy Land for Coptic Christians.

All 11 churches are still standing today in a rural Northern Ethiopian town named after the same King.

A church scholar, Alebachev Retta told the Nigerian Tribune, “They are different because they were built from the top down. Everywhere in the world, structures are built from the ground up. There is nothing comparable in the world.”

See more Photos from some of the Lalibela churches below.

Lalibela, Ethiopia — The fantastically preserved rock hewn Church of Saint George; Lalibela, Ethiopia — Image by © Toby Adamson/Design Pics/Corbis