The church of Yem­re­han­na Kris­tos is one of Ethiopi­a’s best-pre­served late Axu­mite church­es, and is named for a twelfth-cen­­tu­ry Zag­we priest-king and saint. The church is locat­ed inside a large nat­ur­al cav­ern on a hill in north­ern Ethiopia, set in a spec­tac­u­lar land­scape of juniper trees, pre­dat­ing the famous near­by rock-hewn church­es of Lal­i­bela by almost a cen­tu­ry.