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Timkat (Ge'ez: ጥምቀት T’imk’et) is an Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church celebration of Epiphany. It is celebrated on 19 January (or 20 in a leap year ), corresponding to the 11th day of Terr in the Ge'ez calendar .
Thousands of Ethiopian Orthodox followers gathered in the capital Addis Ababa on Friday and Saturday to celebrate Epiphany, also called Timket, a religious festival commemorating Jesus' baptism in ...
Was among the richest churches in Gondar until it was burnt to the ground in the sack of Gondar by Tewodros II in 1866. Rebuilt in the late 1920s. [8] Qeddus Qirqos: Located on southeast end of Adababay, and named after the child martyr Quiricus of Tarsus. Original church founded by Emperor Tekle Haymanot II: Dafacha Kidane Mehret
With an area of 25,000 square kilometers [citation needed], the sport ground hosts Jan Meda International Cross Country as well as social and religious events, most notability, the Timkat celebration held there. [1] [2] [3] Commissioned by Emperor Menelik II to commemorate Ethiopian victory during 1896 Battle of Adwa, the ground is dedicated to ...
Gondar, also spelled Gonder (Amharic: ጎንደር, Gonder [a] or Gondär; [b] formerly ጐንደር, Gʷandar or Gʷender), is a city and woreda in Ethiopia. Located in the North Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region , Gondar is north of Lake Tana on the Lesser Angereb River and southwest of the Simien Mountains .
Holy water is often used during public holidays such as Timkat (), when Christians gather around a small water pool prepared by priests on Ketera, the eve of Timkat. [15] [16] After priests and deacons pray over and bless the water, it is sprayed onto the people "for the purification of their souls from sins committed."
Fasil Ghebbi covers an area of about 70,000 square metres (750,000 sq ft). To its south lies Adababay, the marketplace of the city of Gondar, where imperial proclamations were made, troops presented, and criminals executed; it is currently a city park. [12]
The death of Iyasu I in 1706 began the slow decline in Gondar’s supremacy. Emperor Iyasu I's regent, Empress Mentewab, brought her brother Ras Wolde Leul to Gondar and made him Ras Bitwaded. After this and Iyasu II’s death in 1755, brief dynastic conflicts occurred between Mentewab's Quaregnoch and the Yejju groups led by Wubit.