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by Tolik
Tampa, Florida
July 20, 2002
Greeks arrived in this lovely town about one hundred years ago to harvest Tarpon Springs’ fertile sponge crops, 30 feet below. Their influence remains strong in the town’s sponge market, Greek pastry shops, onion-domed Orthodox church, and annual Epiphany Day (Jan 6) dive for the cross. You will find Greek restaurants, an Athens street, a Poseidon gift
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral, the most striking symbol of Tarpon Spring’s Greek Heritage. The Byzantine Revival church, a replica of St. Sophia in Istanbul, was built in 1943 using marble delivered from Greece.
From journal St Petersburg and the Gulf Beaches