The setting was reminiscent of a Greek village in summer at the Zoodohos Peghe community in the Bronx during the annual festival, which ran June 14-18 this year.
Despite the fact that the weather was not ideal on the first days, the organizers managed to attract great crowds by offering a few festive hours of carefree fun for young and old who enjoyed Greek food, Greek music, games, and a leisurely stroll around the community’s grounds.
“The festival is very important for our community – as for any community – because it contributes to the Church and, of course, it unites all people, because they all work together. They are something like bees because they have two categories, the workers and the soldiers. They work for the Queen Church. The soldiers guard the faith, they guard those of our Church and the workers work to pass on our culture, to offer our food and everything that is Greek,” the community’s presiding priest Fr. Vasilios Louros told The National Herald.
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