Churches today
Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, Axum
Axum · Ethiopia
The traditional centre of Ethiopian Christianity since the fourth-century conversion of Ezana.
Traditional identification
Active site
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo
Late Antique
Medieval
Modern
The claim that the Ark of the Covenant is kept here is a tradition of the Ethiopian church, not a verified fact.
14.130, 38.719
Why it matters
The site of imperial coronations and of the Ark tradition.