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  Christianity in Ethiopia is the largest religion in the country and dates back to the ancient Kingdom of Aksum, when the King Ezana first adopted the faith. This makes Ethiopia one the first regions in the world to officially adopt Christianity. Various Christian denominations are now followed in the country. Of these, the largest and oldest is the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (in Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ኦርቶዶክስ ተዋሕዶ ቤተክርስትያን Yäityop'ya ortodoks täwahedo bétäkrestyan ) an Oriental Orthodox church centered in Ethiopia. The Orthodox Tewahedo Church was part of the Coptic Orthodox Church until 1959, when it was granted its own patriarch by Coptic Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa Cyril VI. Ethiopia was the only region of Africa to survive the expansion of Islam as a Christian state. The largest pre-colonial Christian church of Africa, the Ethiopian Church has a membership of 32 to 36 million, the majority of whom live in Ethiopia, and is thus the largest of all O...

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Entoto Maryam Church is an Ethiopian Orthodox church located on Mount Entoto, Addis Ababa.  Octagonal in shape, it was built by Emperor Menelik II in 1882 when the imperial seat was still in Entoto, before being moved to Addis Ababa. The church is located near the Imperial Palace. It is known to have been the place where Menelik II was crowned King of Kings by Abune Matias on November 3, 1889, after the death of Emperor Yohannes IV. The ceremony took place behind the church. Some priests created a controversy by claiming that they could cure AIDS with the holy water of the church. The sick were then asked to choose between the treatment of drugs and that of holy water. In May 2007, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church announced that mixing the two treatments was now authorized. Sources: Entoto Mariam - Wikipédia , Mount Entoto - Wikipedia

 Legehar train station (French: La Gare ), was the main railway station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the terminal station of the metre-gauge Ethio-Djibouti Railway that connected Ethiopia's capital to the Port of Djibouti. Completed in 1917, the station was a central part of the city and the main source of traffic into the city. The style of the station is French, reflecting the nationality of its builders. The station is no longer in operation, as the metre-gauge railway has been largely superseded by the standard-gauge Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway completed in 2017. The standard-gauge station is located in the outskirts of Addis Ababa. Source: Legehar Train Station - Wikipedia

Addis Mercato (Amharic: መርካቶ for "New Market", popularly just Mercato, from the Italian for "market") is a large open-air marketplace in the Addis Ketema district of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the name refers to the neighborhood in which it is located. Mercato is the largest open air market in Africa, covering several square miles and employing an estimated 13,000 people in 7,100 business entities. The primary merchandise passing through the Merkato is locally grown agricultural products — most notably coffee. Prior to the current Mercato, there was an open market place in Addis Ababa near St. George Church at the site where the City Hall stands now, but it ended with the Italian occupation of the 1930s. The occupiers moved the market further west to the area around the premises of Fitawrari Habte Giyorgis Dinagde, which they named Merkato Indigeno. Thus, the present Addis Merkato was founded by the segregationist policies of the Italian occupational government. Mea...