43rd Annual Greek Festival
September 26th, 27th, 28th 2003
"IT'S CHIC TO BE GREEK"
Open Daily 12:00PM - 9:00PM
(Rain or Shine)
Come Dance to Live Traditional Greek Music
Friday, Saturday & Sunday Evenings
Click here for Directions
Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church offers the largest & oldest
Greek festival in the Washington, D.C. area. We bring a “taste of Greece” to the areas neighborhoods and suburbs. The festival is open to the public with FREE admission, FREE parking and covered eating areas. Credit cards are accepted. In addition to Greek food, the festival features authentic Greek coffees, beers, wines, and live Greek music. Our Greek Marketplace offers books, jewelry, trinkets and religious items.
For 42 years, the Ladies’ Society of Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church,
the Philoptochos, has prepared their authentic Greek fare in two small church kitchens
using recipes passed down from generation to generation and producing a menu of Greek favorites like, Mousaka, Pastichio, Manestra, Spanakopita, Tyropita, Dolmades, as well as succulent Greek pastries such as, Baklava, Diples and Kataifi. This year alone,
the Philoptochos, has baked, kneaded, cooked, and fried over
2500 pieces of spanakopita, 4500 pieces of baklava and 3000 pieces of diples.
Many of these recipes are now available in our Community Cookbook.
The first three-day festival began in 1960, as an expansion of our one-day bazaar
that was established in the late 1940s. The festival is our way of sharing our culture with surrounding community. Our 84-year old Church was started by a small group of Greek immigrants in 1918 at 6th and C Streets, NW, in Washington, D.C., headed up by Fathers Menides and Metaxopoulos with a small congregation of 100. The 16th and Upshur location
was acquired in 1954 to fulfill the growing numbers of parishioners
currently at over 1400 members. For more history click here.
