The Beautiful Church Near My House
Wednesday, April 29th, 2009 | Uncategorized
Finally afer living here for eight months, I took a picture of this beautiful church. It’s called Medhane Alem–Savior of the World and it is probably the biggest church I have ever seen in Addis. The name of my neighborhood is even named after it–Bole Medhane Alem. Bole is the general area and Medhane Alem describes that it is the area of Bole near the church.
Medhane Alem is an Othodox church. There is constant chanting heard from the church, especially on church holidays. In fact, on Good Friday people spent all day at the church, commemorating Jesus’ death and crucifixcion. I was very humbled by this personally, because I don’t think I could spend all day at church. I might not agree with everything that the Orthodox Church says, but it is the oldest form of Christianity and I have a high respect for the level of devotion people in this church can give to God.
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