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This period takes its name from the city of Aksum which had been the capital of Ethiopia for quite a long time before the transformation to Christianity of Ruler Ezana (who managed from c. 320-360) and filled in as capital for a very long time later. While we can’t preclude the likelihood that Christianity had been available in the country preceding the change of this ruler, it is just beginning from this period that declarations of particularly Christian convictions show up in the material record.
In any case, archeologists accept that few currently destroyed structures dating to the fourth or fifth century worked as chapels — an end in light of elements like their direction. An enormous ventured platform in the compound of the congregation of Mary of Zion in Aksum (considered by the Ethiopians as the residence of the Ark of the Contract), most likely once gave admittance to a huge church worked during this period.