Timkat#
Timkat, © Gerhard Huber, under CC BY-NC 4.0 +Edu
The water basin is flooded only once a year on the occasion of the Timkat festival on 19 January, the day on which, according to the Ethiopian calendar, the baptism of Christ took place in the Jordan. Then, hundreds of those who want to be baptized jump into the sanctified waters.
Das Bassin wird nur einmal jährlich anlässlich des Timkat-Festes am 19. Jänner geflutet, jenem Tag, an dem nach äthiopischem Kalender die Taufe Christi im Jordan stattfand. Hunderte Taufkinder springen dann ins geweihte Wasser.