A New Name
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To raise additional funds for the construction of the church's new building, the church held a fundraising drive to choose its name. Then it selected various names and participants donated money for the name they preferred. Each fifty dollar donation represented one vote and St. Nicholas won the competition. Today the church still bears the name of the fourth-century Christian saint and Greek bishop of Myra who is also known as Nikolaos the Wonderworker because of the many miracles attributed to him.
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St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church
Waco’s once thriving Greek community began when a London company sent a Greek cotton merchant to the city in order to purchase cotton for English mills, and soon after he chose to settle in Waco. In the early 1900s Waco’s first Greek family opened a…