Monument to the Lion of Judah on a black granite pedestal decorated with relief portraits of Menelik II, Haile Selassie I, Zewditu, and "ras" Makonnen Wolde Mikael. The monument is located in the square in front of the old railway station and marks the end of Winston Churchill Avenue, one of the main arteries of the city. Monument to the Lion of Judah The monument to the Lion of Judah is a statue of the Lion of Judah, symbol of Ethiopian Emperors and Ethiopia. It is located in the square of the Addis Ababa railway station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The statue is particularly well known
Tribe of Judah apocalyptic vision of the Lion of the tribe of Judah. As part of the kingdom of Judah, the tribe of Judah survived the destruction of Israel by the Assyrians, and instead was subjected to the Babylonian captivity; when the captivity ended, the distinction between the tribes were lost in favour of a common identity. Since Simeon and Benjamin had been very much the junior partners in the Kingdom of Judah, it was Judah that gave its name to the identity—that of the "Jews". After the fall of Jerusalem, Babylonia (modern day Iraq), would become the focus of Jewish life for