Reading the Holy Book – Ethiopia

Posted by PBGalerie.ch at 08:30 PM in 2010

Continuation of the gallery “Historic route of the North“.

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© PBGalerie.ch / Holy Scriptures

A priest reads the Holy Scriptures in the Mikael Milhaizengi rock-hewn church.

Majority of people in Ethiopia speak Amharic, a language derived from Ge’ez. Ge’ez remained the learned language of Ethiopia until the nineteenth century. It’s now used only as a liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and only priests still speak that language.

But I don’t know if the above text is Amharic or Ge’ez.

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Tags: Ethiopia, Mikael Milhaizengi, Portrait, Tigray