The gold-coated ark adorned with a gold wreath once resided in the First Temple until the Babylonian army's destruction in 587 BC. While records don't mention its fate, it's improbable that such a ...
Aksum is a holy site for Ethiopian Orthodox Christians who say it is home to the Ark of the Covenant ... guard at the city's Our Lady Mary of Zion Church and no-one is allowed to see it.
For Ethiopia's Orthodox Christians, the ancient city of Aksum is a sacred place, home to the Biblical Queen of Sheba and Ark of the Covenant ... Our Lady Mary of Zion Church.
The Ethiopian Orthodox Church dates the top-down Christianization of Aksum circa 330 AD with King ... On his return to Aksum, he took the Ark of the Covenant (also referred to as Sion) with him, a ...