Debre Selam MedhaneAlem Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

The rapidly growing Ethiopian Orthodox community in Houston first started its assembly at St. Mark Egyptian Orthodox Church in Houston and later bought 2.5 acres of land in December 1993 and conducted its services in a tent until August 6, 1995, when the late Arch Bishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in the western Hemi­sphere, Abune Yesehaq, laid the comer stone to build the current assembly hall. The church was later built and inaugurated on November 9, 1996, in the presence of all three archbishops (Abune Yishaq, Abune Zenamarkos and Abune Melketsedik) who were then resident in the United States.