It is erected on the square of Emperor Menelik near St George Church and it is a standing testimony of the famous Battle of Adwa in 1896 where Africa triumphed over European colonialism. The statue of Emperor Menelik is one of the monuments erected many years after the foundation of Addis Ababa as a capital of the country. A German architect Hartel Spengler carved it from bronze in Germany at the order of Queen Zawditu the daughter of Emperor Menelik II for the memory of her father. The statue symbolizes the anti-colonial struggle of Emperor Menelik who waged the Battle of Adwa heading the Ethiopian warriors and conquered the white army in the land of the black continent. The statue symbolizes Emperor Menelik in his coronation robe riding gloriously on Dagnew, his horse, and two spears on his hand. As it is shown on the statue Dagnew being out of natural size and raising both the fore-legs, looks to the north where the Battle of Adwa took place and victory was for Ethiopians. At the time when the statue of Menelik was arrived in Ethiopia from Germany and its place of erection had been arranged, Queen Zawditu died accidentally in 1930.