Enkutatash (New Year)  |   Ledet (Ethiopian Christmas)   |   Meskel
Timket (Ethiopian Epiphany) | Hidar Tsion   |  Fasika (Ethiopian Easter)   
Debra Damo (Feast of Saint Aregawi          

Timket (Ethiopian Epiphany)
Timket (Epiphany) is one of the greatest festivals on Ethiopia’s Orthodox Tewahido church calendar. It commemorates Christ’s baptism by Saint John in the Jordan River. Timket is celebrated in Ethiopia on January 11th on the Ethiopian calendar (January 19 on the Gregorian calendar). On this day, in the morning, people go to nearby churches for prayers, and in the afternoon, replicas of the Arc of the covenant are taken out of every church, accompanied by the priests, deacon, singers of the church, as well as ordinary people to the place where the baptism ceremony is held.