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Kalymnian Society Ladies in church
Ladies Kalymnian Society members gathered with Father Theofilos Karaphillis in front of the altar inside the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in 1944. After the initial influx, Kalymnians gradually became the largest regional group within the Greek…
Koumbara putting stefana on the bride and groom during the wedding of Demetre Mott
St. Nicholas, 36 N. Pinellas Avenue.
St. Nicholas church choir ca. 1920s
Father Theophilos Karaphillis (1883-1963) with George Anastassiou to his right, Vasile Faklis (then Papafaklis) to his left, and the first choir in front of old St. Nicholas Greek Church, circa 1925. Karaphillis came from Kalymnos in 1922 and served…
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church consecration, 1943
Archbishop Athenagoras and Father Karaphillis at the consecration of the new St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in 1943. Chanter Vasile Faklis is on the far right behind Father Karaphillis. Completed at the height of World War II, it replaced the…