Church Ethiopian Evangelical Church (Amharic & English) Website Template
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A bilingual site for an Ethiopian evangelical congregation where the parents pray in Amharic and their children mostly answer in English. Every heading, button and service time appears in both languages, and the site is organized around how the church really lives: Sunday services, Thursday home fellowships, Friday prayer and Saturday school.
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- Built for
- Ethiopian and Eritrean families in Montgomery and Prince George's counties, newly arrived Ethiopians looking for a church that sounds like home, and second-generation teenagers and spouses who worship in English.
- Navigation
- Classic top bar. Logo left, pages right, one action. Familiar to every visitor.
Names, photos, times and stories in this template are sample content. Your version uses your own words, photos and branding.
Why it looks this way.
- Typography
Alegreya was drawn for literature and carries the rhythm of a broad-nib pen, which is how Ethiopic has been written for centuries, so the two scripts look related rather than pasted together. Amharic text is set in Noto Sans Ethiopic, chosen for its clear fidel at small sizes on cheap phones. Alegreya Sans, from the same family, does the body copy.
- Alegreya headlines
- Alegreya Sans body text
- Color
The brown is a fresh coffee roast, the smell of every Ethiopian Sunday afternoon. The yellow is the adey abeba, the daisy that covers the highlands at New Year in September. The background is the cool off-white of a cotton netela rather than cream. In dark mode the roast becomes the page and the daisy yellow becomes lamplight.
- Page
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#FFFFFF - Text
#1F1A16 - Brand
#5A3220 - Accent
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- Page
- Layout
A classic top bar, because many in this congregation are older, browse on phones and expect menus where menus usually are. The language switch sits in the header, and choosing አማርኛ swaps every heading, button and time without reloading the page.
Pages: Home, Sundays, Home fellowships, Saturday school, Prayer, About us, Give
- Hero
The home page opens with a mosaic of photographs of people worshipping, studying in living rooms and drawing in Sunday school, with the headline locked into one cell. For a diaspora church, seeing faces that look like your family is the first and most important answer.
- Calls to action
The nav button is Join a home fellowship, not Give, because the Thursday living-room groups are where newcomers actually become part of this church. Other buttons are equally specific: Enroll your child for Saturday school, Send a prayer request, Give your tithe, each in both languages.
- Photography
African worship, white garments, Bibles open on sofas and children at a lesson table. We avoided generic stock crowds; where a photo shows a room, it is a room the size of this church.
- Accessibility
Body text is 18px. Amharic is marked with the correct lang attribute so screen readers switch voice, and each language has its own font stack. Every color pair passes WCAG AA in both themes, and the pill buttons have a visible focus ring.
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