{"id":5145,"date":"2026-11-03T06:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5145"},"modified":"2026-11-03T06:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:11:32","slug":"rock-passage-at-adadi-mariam-rock-hewn-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/5145","title":{"rendered":"Rock passage at Adadi Mariam rock hewn church"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"922\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/rock-passage-at-adadi-mariam-rock-hewn-church.jpg?resize=922%2C2048&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A narrow path running between high walls of rock, with trees and a railing visible above\" class=\"wp-image-5144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/rock-passage-at-adadi-mariam-rock-hewn-church.jpg?w=922&amp;ssl=1 922w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/rock-passage-at-adadi-mariam-rock-hewn-church.jpg?resize=250%2C555&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/rock-passage-at-adadi-mariam-rock-hewn-church.jpg?resize=700%2C1555&amp;ssl=1 700w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/rock-passage-at-adadi-mariam-rock-hewn-church.jpg?resize=768%2C1706&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/rock-passage-at-adadi-mariam-rock-hewn-church.jpg?resize=692%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 922px) 100vw, 922px\" \/><figcaption>A narrow path runs between high rock walls at the Adadi Mariam rock hewn church in Ethiopia, which the poster visited. He says it was the first time he removed his shoes to enter a place of worship.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A narrow path runs between high rock walls at the Adadi Mariam rock hewn church in Ethiopia, which the poster visited. He says it was the first time he removed his shoes to enter a place of worship.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sammigachuhi\/status\/2081338931040153676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samuel Gachuhi (@sammigachuhi) on X<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A narrow path runs between high rock walls at the Adadi Mariam rock hewn church in Ethiopia, which the poster visited. He says it was the first time he removed his shoes to enter a place of worship. A narrow path runs between high rock walls at the Adadi Mariam rock hewn church in Ethiopia,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":5144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"photographer":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[2780,108,2768,2765],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-adadi-mariam","tag-ethiopia","tag-ethiopian-orthodox-church","tag-rock-hewn-churches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/rock-passage-at-adadi-mariam-rock-hewn-church.jpg?fit=922%2C2048&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/album\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}