Église orthodoxe grecque de Bordeaux

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The Church of the Presentation-de-la-Vierge-Marie-au-Temple (in modern Greek: Following the installation in the region of many Greeks, who joined France during the First World War or as refugees of late Ottoman genocides, the Greek-Turkish war and a series of events called the Great Disaster; The Greek and Orthodox community of the city feels the need to establish a place of worship. This situation remained frozen until the half of the 1950s, when the future metropolitan of France, Méletios Karabinis, contacted Panayiotis Petalas, former Greek Minister of Economy and rich Greek shipowner, who largely financed the purchase of the land and the construction of the church. Throughout its history, the parish is visited by several important Orthodox religious leaders, such as Cyrille of Moscow or Iakovos of America (in) and is engaged in cultural activities for the Greek and Orthodox community of the...