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Ethiopian Christmas in Lalibela is grand and graceful.
Ethiopian Christmas in Lalibela is grand and graceful. It almost feels like going back in time and witnessing early Christians celebrating. The various rituals happen all throughout the night, a testament to how much faith means to my people.
On Christmas Day, Around 100,000 white robed pilgrims make their way to this village of medieval churches that have been carved out of the ground to celebrate Christmas.
Ethiopian Christmas was celebrated on January 7, according to the ancient Julian calendar to which the Ethiopian Orthodox Church still adheres. Gift giving is a very small part of Ethiopian Christmas. Ethiopians like to celebrate Christmas in the traditional way it has been ever since the county was Christianised. Christians is more about praying and attending church. It is a profoundly spiritual period…
On Christmas Day, Around 100,000 white robed pilgrims make their way to this village of medieval churches that have been carved out of the ground to celebrate Christmas.
Many young men and women residents of Lalibela arrange stations in the city to welcome Samis, pilgrims who travel to the rock hewn churches to celebrate the Christmas.
Young teens wash the feet of the Samis and provide them with food. Some pilgrims walk up to two weeks on foot and others drive for days to get here.
Ethiopian Christmas, early mass in Lalibela. All people packed in the church, most of them dressed in white, bear foot, or on socks, shoes outside the church, wax candles, sounds of the priests beating the drums, chanting, the smell of frankincense. Whole society celebrates. This was in one of the rock-hewn churches in.
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Jinka,Ethiopia
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