The Church of Zion (Axum, Ethiopia)
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Emperor Haile Selassie built the Church of Zion in 1962 In Axum.It is the second most beautiful church in Ethipoia after Holly Trinity It was built for the respect and love he has for the Province of Tegere. Tigrai people have faced the invaders head on. The entire design is Marble and oak. Photographer is Hoyt Smith. Derge tried to destroy the Emperor and failed. TPLF made up a fake history of hate. The Emperor will live in the hearts of all Ethiopians and dictators history will be erased
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ST. GEORGE'S CATHEDRAL (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
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St George's Cathedral is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo cathedral in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is noted for its distinctive octagonal form. It is located at the northern end of Churchill Road in the city.
Designed by Sebastiano Castagna and built by Italian prisoners of war defeated at Adwa in 1896, it was named after St. George, after the Tabot (Ark) of the church was carried to the Battle of Adwa against the Italians during which the Ethiopians secured victory. The building was described in 1938 in an Italian tourist publication as a fine example of the European interpretation of Ethiopian church design. The Italian Fascist authorities set the building on fire during the war in 1937. The cathedral was later restored by the Emperor following the liberation in 1941.
Empress Zewditu of Ethiopia was crowned at this Cathedral in 1917, and Emperor Haile Selassie was crowned there in 1930, and it became a pilgrimage site for Rastafarians. The Cathedral has a museum, and an Imperial throne is on display as is the stained glass works of artist Afewerk Tekle. Given the reason why the cathedral was named, it displays weaponry used in the wars against the Italians including curved swords and tridents and giant helmets made from the manes of lions.
Source: Tsega Tekle Haimanot ~ FB Post 10-26-2017
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Debre Keranio Medhanialem EOTC
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Ethiopia ~ Our Lady Mary of Zion Church
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Ali Jackson Many Rastafarians were wrongly mislead into believing that this was a picture of the Ark of the Covenant covered up in a picture with Janhoy. But the truth be told, it was the Stone Throne on the premisses of the Old Church of Our Lady St. Mary of Zion. The picture with Janhoy was from a Church celebration from the dedication ceremony when Janhoy donated the original Imperial coronation crowns to the Mother Church in Axum. At the top of the stairs in front of the Old St Mary of Zion Church is the Stone Throne where the coronation of 261 Aksumite kings took place. Now because Janhoy & Itege Menen Asfaw were both crowned at St. George's Cathedral in Addis Ababa not at the Old Church of Our Lady St. Mary of Zion in Axum. No monarch in Ethiopia can be given the Title of King of Zion unless the Monarch is crowned on the Stone Throne at the Old Church of Our Lady St. Mary of Zion in Axum Ethiopia. Janhoy was accoreded the title of King of Zion by the Abuna as a result of Janhoy donating the original Imperial coronation crowns to the church to preserve for posterity.
Source: Ali Jackson ~ FB post ~ 26 Dec 2019
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These pictures (left) are of the same area pictured above. The difference is in this picture the Axumite Stone Throne of the Old Church of Our Lady Saint Mary of Zion is not covered. By the way the Stone Throne is a part of the stone staircase at the church & it cannot be removed it is permanent.
Source: Ali Jackson ~ FB post ~ 26 Dec 2019
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EOTC Ener Amanuel Monastery
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EOTC Ener Amanuel Monastery found in Gurage
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Monastery of Narga Selassie
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Monastery of Narga Selassie (Rest of the Trinity) is a church on Dek Island. It's the largest island in Northern Ethiopia. It was constructed by Empress Mentewab in the late 18th Century.
Mentewab (means in Amharic, "How beautiful.")
Mentewab's Baptismal name is Walatta Giorgis, which means, "Daughter of Saint George."
Throne name: Berhan Magassa (which means, Glorifier of Light)
From the House of Solomon, her coronation was on December 23, 1730, where she became Empress of Ethiopia. She was the consort of Emperor Bakaffa. She was the mother of Iyasu II(whose was also known as Berhan Seged, which means, "He to whom the Light bows") and grandmother of Iyosas I.
Mentewab built several significant structures in Gondar including her own Castle in the Royal Enclosure and a large banqueting hall as well. Most significantly she built a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary at Qusquam(named for a site in Egypt where the Holy Family had stayed during their exile) in the mountains outside of Gondar.
Source: Tsega Tekle Haimanot ~ FB post ~ 10 Oct 2019
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Narga Selassie is an Orthodox church on the western shores of Dek Island, the largest island of Lake Tanain northern Ethiopia. The name signifies "Trinity of the Rest". "Rest" refers to the place and the shade thereabouts.
The church was constructed by Empress Mentewabin the late 18th century, apparently using as construction material for doors and roof a gigantic sycamore fig tree that stood at the centre of a slight elevation, now the centre of the church. Narga Selassie is fully decorated in the local style. A relief on the main entry portrays the Scottish explorer James Bruce, who visited the capital, Gondar, in the late 19th century.
Narga Selassie was constructed in the classic round architectural tradition of the churches in the Lake Tana area, with the usage of stone both in the perinaeum around the church and in the compound walls.
The church is accessed from the lake through a port constructed in 1987, which is connected to Bahir Darand Gorgora by a state-owned ferry service. The access is in itself a beauty spot with a huge sycamore with long aerial roots descending to the lake and a door tower which forms part of the original construction.
Source: Tsega Tekle Haimanot ~ FB post ~ 10 Oct 2019
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THE HEBRAIC INFLUENCE ON THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX TEWAHEDO CHURCH
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Like the Eastern Christian Churches, the Ethiopian Church did inherit the Hebraic forms of worship. But the tradition of the Hebrew is more preserved in Ethiopia than in any other Christian Church Today. This, of course, was “as a result of the visit of Queen Makeda(Sheba) to King Solomon” at Palestine (1,000 B.C.) Her union with King Solomon produced King Menelik I, who was born while she journeyed back to Ethiopia where she condemned the sun god Worship as well as all other types of worship and introduced to her people the worship of the One True God of King Solomon. Her visit is recorded in the Bible (1 Kings 10:1-13) but more details are available in the book of Kebra Nagast (The Glory of Kings). It is legend, nevertheless, that the Ethiopians are deeply conscious of and are in agreement with the statement of the Kebra Negast. The Kebra Nagast stated that in later years when Makeda’s son Menelik I visited his father King Solomon, he brought the Ark of Covenant accompanied by Azarius the son of Zadok the High Priest and all the first-born of the House of Israel. The Bete Israel (Falasha Jews) of Ethiopia, and some other natives as well, trace their origin to this day from the people who accompanied Menelik to Aksum. The Ark today is resting in the St. Mary of Tsion Church in the city of Aksum which is the birthplace of the country’s civilization and center for Christian worship. This is perhaps the most remarkable occasion for the introduction of the Hebrew tradition to Ethiopia. Today every Ethiopian Church has an Ark(Tabot) on the altar which is the focal point of worship. Communion cannot be administered without it.
Edward Ullendorff suggests that “Antiphonal singing as part of the worship was an established form of the Hebrew Liturgy since the earliest times and was taken over by the Christian Churches especially in Eastern rites of the Jacobite Syrians and the Copts. It is unlikely that the Hebrew forms were anywhere more faithfully preserved than in the Ethiopian service with its emphasis on the Debteras cantor and antiphony. The offices of the Debteras are in most respects comparable to that of the Levites, particularly in their roles as cantors and choristers. Most of their duty is to chant from Psalms and Hymns. The musical instrument of the Hebrews in 2 Samuel 6:5, which David/Dawit and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on harps and lyres, drums, and sistra, dancing with the high sound of the trumpet is alive in Ethiopia today. For this and other reasons the rituals of the Ethiopian Christian traditions mingle with the Old Testament traditions identically with the Hebrew traditions and customs. For instance, the men do not enter a church the day after they have had intercourse with their wives: nor do the women come to church service after childbirth, till the days of their purification are over or till the sacrament of baptism is administered to the child. A person who is, for certain reasons, unclean cannot enter the Church till he is purified. The washing of hand s before and after food and eating the meat of animals that are prohibited in Leviticus Chapter 11 and many others are observed identically by both the Ethiopians and the Hebrews. However, these and other laws of the Old Testament are not being observed merely because of the tradition. They are also done in respect of the law written in Matthew 5: 8, that “one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law.”
Source: Tsega Tekle Haimanot ~ FB Post - 05-11-2017
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