Fasilo HD Today News March 27/2022

This period takes its name from the city of Aksum which had been the capital of Ethiopia for a very long time before the transformation to Christianity of King Ezana (who governed from c. 320-360) and filled in as capital for a considerable length of 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 statements of unmistakably Christian convictions show up in the material record.

Few Ethiopian temples, like Debre Damo (above) and Degum, can be probably credited to the Aksumite time frame. These two designs presumably date to the sixth century or later. As yet standing pre-sixth century Aksumite temples have not been unhesitatingly recognized. In any case, archeologists accept that few currently destroyed structures dating to the fourth or fifth century worked as temples an end in light of highlights 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 Covenant), presumably once gave admittance to a huge church worked during this period.