The Candle Vendor of Lalibela

Man huddled in white shawl sells candles before mass in stone churches of Lalibela

Sunday Morning in Lalibela

Lalibela, Ethiopia 2013

A young man, wrapped in his shama (white shawl) waits on the path to Lalibela’s famed stone churches.  Church-goers buy the candles and hold them over their prayerbooks during mass. Maybe the candles help them see in the dark churches or maybe it is a way to make their prayers more prayerful.

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