Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church

I think the idea of doing a review on
is not really to critique their Greek festival, but rather, to tell others of your experience at the Sunday liturgy. That is really the main reason why they DO have a festival, to extend themselves and their faith to the community. Have you attended a service? What was it like? Did you connect with it? Did it help you grow closer to God?

You can’t beat the Greek food at the annual Greek Festival. It’s on my annual Must-​Do list

It was Greekfest and I was expecting a huge foodfest to put me in a coma, instead it was just «all right». just perfect for lunch/​brunch. Even tho you pay in «talents» (tokens). It was dollar per talent. Everything (except the soft drinks) was over 2 tokens (a small piece of cheese stuffed pastry). Overly price for such little portion and not enough exposure of greek food.

Based on my wildly haphazard findings, I would be a great practitioner of Greek Orthodox. According to the tour guide in Athens, the church doesn’t care how often you attend services. There’s no whispering about your drinking habits behind hymn books. After all, their mythical grandpa is Dionysus. Parts of the services are conducted in that wonderful, building block language with all the staccato consonants strung together to sound like an old freighter clanking along the tracks. Heck, you don’t even have to be Greek to join. Plus, the hope that fellow parishioners could bring homemade baklava makes my mouth dance.
But mainly, I’m enamored with the building. It sits near the edge of the Laurelhurst pillars on Glisan, almost defiant with its mottled bricks and tall narrow windows among the pastel paints and luxury sedans. It reminds me that there are many ways to be stately. And I won’t lie — I didn’t know a thing about the church until the Greek Festival, held annually at the tail end of summer. For three days, Laurelhurst residents and visitors watch folk dances, wolf down cheap gyros, and wash it down with rivers of booze under a sign that warns, «No Alcohol Permitted Off Church Grounds.» Any establishment that helps the community celebrate the swan song of the warm season in such a loud, generous manner deserves some praise. I’d be in over my head to show my affection in the grand style of Sophocles or Homer. So, simply put: Laurelhurst needs Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox. Keep partying like the Greeks of old.