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Ethiopian Christmas will be celebrating on January 7 and it's the most popular and colourful in Lalibela.
On Christmas Eve, or the gahad of Christmas, Ethiopians attend overnight mass, usually starting around 6pm and finishing at 3am.
Within the often circular churches, people line up around the sides of the church and begin a long looping procession around the circumference of the church, sound-tracked by a heavenly choir and a range of traditional instruments such as a sistrum, a tambourine shaped drum.
At this point the congregation are given candles, and follow the priest around the church as he bestows blessings for the year upon those he passes.
Once they have passed by twice, the congregation are divided by gender and gather round the centre circle, where the priest conducts mass.
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