In the center of a meditative gallery, artist Tsedaye Makonnen’s seven light towers—made from mirrored boxes featuring the cutout designs of Ethiopian crosses—serve as monuments to lost ...

Sept. 27 is the annual celebration of Meskal in the Ethiopian Orthodox and Eritrean Orthodox churches.

According to Ethiopian legend, when people got close to a piece of the True Cross it made them naked because of its powerful light. For this reason, a decision was made to bury it at the Gishen Mariam ...

The museum had an Ethiopian seamstress in Silver Spring make the deep-red satin dressings for the stately copper, bronze and silver processional crosses on view, some of them centuries old, and ...

To celebrate the 25 years of Facets of Faith, I am occasionally running updates of older columns this year. This week’s piece originally ran Sept. 14, 2018.