This traffic axis constitutes a historical, architectural, and religious complex with unique characteristics and embodies an important part of the chronology and essence of the city's construction.

The pedestrian walking along the street up the traffic axis sees unique historical evidence of 19th-century and early 20th-century architecture.

Construction on Ethiopia Street began in the 19th century by representatives of Ethiopian Emperor Menelik II.

Menelik's wife, Taitu Betul, and his senior minister, Ras Makonnen, built more than a dozen buildings in what began to be called "Habashim Street.

In 1884, at the initiative of Emperor Yohannes, the construction of the Kidane Mehret Church (Covenant of Mercy) began on a plot called Debre Genet (Mount of Paradise), in the center of the Ethiopian compound adjacent to Prophets Street.

In 1930, when Ras Tafari Haile Selassie was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia, the ties between the Ethiopian monarchy and Jerusalem were strengthened.

[7][8] House number 8 was built at the initiative of Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia as a rental apartment building, with the income intended to finance the church and Ethiopian activities in Jerusalem.

[11] The consulates of Norway, Sweden, and Spain during the Mandate period were located at Ethiopia Street 5.

Additionally, the writer Mordechai Ben Hillel HaCohen, a leader of the Lovers of Zion movement and a relative of Yitzhak Rabin's mother, also lived there.