Day six of our journey to Seth Kidus
Day six was our day to tour churches. Ethiopian Orthodox churches are very beautiful and tell amazing stories with their art work. The first church we visited was The Trinity Church:
Behind The Trinity Church was a Hailee Selassie museum. We were unable to take pictures inside the museum, but the items inside were quite interesting.
Off to the side of this picture was a man mowing the lawn with a pair of hedge trimmers. If that does not make you grateful for that old push mower, I don't know what will!
The next church we visited was St. George. This was the church that our driver, Sammy, attended. It was being renovated for the new millennium, but they were close to being done. Normally, you have to remove your shoes when entering all Ethiopian Orthodox churches, but since it was a mess we were able to leave our shoes on. Our guide at this church was amazingly knowledgeable and interesting. He was obviously a scholar and was even able to read and write Ge'ez (our equivalent to Latin.)
Here is our guide standing with a statue of the Ethiopian eunuch that was mentioned in Acts 8:27. The eunuch is credited for introducing Christianity to Ethiopia. Pretty good legacy, if you ask me.
When we were all done visiting churches, we went to a local shop to purchase some of that amazing Ethiopian coffee:
Seth Kidus did wonderful. Of course, those churches echo and babies do love to hear themselves! The guides did not seem to mind, though. The rest of the day was uneventful... We just hung out the house and continued to practice being a family of four :)
4 comments:
I am really looking forward to touring the churches. I love the rich history that is inside them.
And coffee...lots and lots of coffee.
Do you know if there are limits on the amount of coffee you can bring back? And is it all unroasted- roasting beans might seem novel at first, but I guess I'm hoping we can buy some already roasted for Christmas gifts (aahhhh I'm still way too optimistic).
While in Ethiopia, we checked online with customs to see if there was a limit - there wasn't. We declared everything when we came home and they didn't even look at it. No problems at all.
You can buy it roasted or unroasted, ground or unground. It is GREAT coffee. I am going to be begging people to buy me some as they go over to get their children :)
I hope you will be able to buy it for Christmas gifts, too!
Touring those churches sounds pretty neat. We weren't able to get inside St. George's because of the construction. That will give us something to do on our next trip to Addis :)
Thanks for recapping this journey...very cool.
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