About the Chapel of Ark of the Covenant, Axum, Ethiopia:
By Indiana Jones even more famous made it, of antiquity one of the great mysteries has long been the “Lost Ark”. Before Christ sometime from Jerusalem mysteriously disappeared the biblical Ark of the Covenant. However, where it is they know exactly some western and Ethiopians theorists says that, in Axum, Ethiopia in a chapel enshrined.
The history of the Chapel of Ark of the Covenant:
A great shrine was the Ark of the Covenant which contained of the Ten Commandments the tablets on Sinai by the Moses from God that were received, of acacia wood was made the Ark and with gold overlaid, according to the Bible. It measured 0.7 meter high, 0.7 meter wide and 1.15 meter long and by the two long bars was carried, of acacia wood which gold plated also made. By the cherubims was guarded the Ark of the Ark over the place their two wings that spread forth.
States the biblical account that, with them the Ark of the Covenant carried the Israelites they went wherever and great divine power it contained to many that proved fatal. When was built the Temple of Jerusalem, in the Holy of Holies was enshrined there the Ark and by the High Priest only seen.
From Jerusalem the Ark disappeared at some point. Over the millennia in Ethiopia was then kept safe the Ark, during wars hidden carefully and in a special treasury it is enshrined today which located in Ethiopia in Axum next to the Church of St. Mary of Zion.
At the Chapel of Ark of the Covenant what to see:
By anyone cannot be seen at the Axum the Ark of the Covenant but of Axum the High Priest, a holy and elderly monk especially for life with it care and preservation who is charged. The small yard he cannot leave the chapel which surrounds, and on his deathbed his successor to name he is expected. With this privilege the present custodian and Abba Tesfa Mariam is named the burden.
To the relic to gain access in the attempts were unsuccessful on the Lost Ark of the Abovementioned books the authors. In fact, to see it is allowed the Ethiopian president not even. Once a year on a procession taken out used to be the Ark, but in the area due to the war and tensions in the recent years, full time in its shrine it remains locked.
One explorer of Britain told that, his own safety are for these restrictions, for the Ark if I approached punished I would be, its terrible power upon me unleash and would become invisible is that the theory, outright killed I would be, incinerated probably. He also added that, this effect could have in all Ethiopian churches placed one of the blessed replicas that even seeing.
The Ark is kept in which the building can see the visitors. As the Treasury or a relic chapel referred to, the cathedral’s treasure it contains also like the processional crosses of silver and the crowns of the Ethiopian kings. Regularly are brought out the other treasures and for the visitors displayed, but inside the building is allowed no one.
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