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St. George's Greek Orthodox Church

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St. George's Greek Orthodox Church around 2006. (Photo by Bob Krawczyk.)

The synagogue in 1908 (courtesy of Toronto Star Photo Archives).

BUILDING INFORMATION

Name & Location:

St. George's Greek Orthodox Church
115 Bond Street
Toronto
Downtown Yonge East

Year Completed:

1895-1897

OTHER IDENTIFICATION

Alternate Name:

Holy Blossom Temple

Notes:

This bulbous domed Romanesque building is Toronto's oldest purpose-built synagogue. Completed during the last years of the 19th century, it initially housed Holy Blossom Temple, one of the city's first Jewish congregations, founded in 1858. In 1937, the community moved to its current home at 1950 Bathurst Street.

The Bond Street building's physical character was altered in the 1980s to take on a more Christian Byzantine aesthetic. Its current incarnation is as St. George's Greek Orthodox Church. The church interior is unique in being the only one outside of Greece to have been painted in its entirety by the Pachomaioi monks Theophilos and Chrysostomos, master iconographers from Mount Athos, Greece.

(Research and text by Alessandro Tersigni.)

Status:

Completed

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Companies:

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Architect - J. Winston Siddall <-- More buildings by this architect.

BUILDING DATA

Building Type:

Religious

Current Use:

Religious , Church

Former Use:

Synagogue

Heritage Status:

Designated under Part IV Ontario Heritage Act

Main Style:

Byzantine <-- More buildings in this style.

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