And during my trip, it became clear that this veneration of the church was born from a belief that Ethiopia has been chosen by God as the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant. But for millennia, Ethiopian Christians have claimed that the Ark was actually taken to Ethiopia for safekeeping. Here on Lake Tana is a tiny island in swimming distance of the shore, where Ethiopian priests supposedly left their precious Ark for 350 years. It would take three hours on a rickety boat to get to Tana Kirkos, where the Ark was allegedly kept. It is, of course, impossible to say whether the Ark and its tour of the Ethiopian lakes has any basis in truth.

Source: Ethiopian News January 06, 2019 02:48 UTC