Fifteen years ago, Affaf El-Jakl remembers
there was talk of building a new church to accommodate the growing
congregation of Saint Antonios Orthodox Church.
And on Sunday, that hope finally became reality.
“We’re in awe,” El-Jakl, president of the
parish council said Sunday morning, as hundreds of parishioners filed
into the sanctuary, filling it to capacity until there was only standing
room and the upper balcony left to sit.
"It's not everyday a new church is built and opened."
The crowd gathered to celebrate the unveiling
of the new church with the first of what would be many Sunday masses to
follow, sitting in pews that originally belonged to the building when it
served as Saint Matthias Anglican Church.
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