This study looks at the ways in which Yemeni men and women living in Addis Ababa construct their communal identity through religious practices, and the extent to which religion is also used as a tool of assimilation. I intend to analyze the ways in which the Yemeni community has negotiated daily life in Ethiopia through the imaginative and creative construction of meaning, creating and recreating a Muslim and Yemeni identity through religious practice, which enables them to both adapt to life in Ethiopia and which also brings memories of Yemen to life. Despite the fact that there is a sizable Yemeni, chiefly Hadrami, community living in diaspora, very little has been written about those in Ethiopia. This paper offers further analysis of displaced and relocated religious communities, transnational Yemeni and muwallad identity, and the religious practices of Yemenis abroad. It asks how Yemenis in diaspora plan to transmit Yemeni cultural and religious values to their children. More broadly, it sheds light on the intersections between identity, culture, and religion.