26/09/2024
Meskel has been celebrated in Ethiopia for more than 1,600 years and been registered by the UNESCO in December 2013 as an Intangible World Heritage being celebrated mainly by Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church followers.
At the eve of Meskel, Demera, a tradition in which huge bonfire is prepared attached to a tree with green leaves burned in commemoration of how the True Cross was found through the guidance of a smoke from the bonfire.