St. George Greek Orthodox Church
87 Ashley Boulevard ~ New Bedford, MA 02746 ~ Tel: (508) 996-5913

Our History
The earliest Greek immigrants arrived in the New Bedford area
during the first decade of the twentieth century, erected a wooden
church in the Oxford section of Fairhaven and established the Greek
Orthodox Community under the name of St. George in 1911.

Many of the Greeks settled in the area of Coggeshall Street and
Ashley Boulevard (Bowditch). As their community grew in number
and prospered, the Greeks purchased a property consisting of two
houses at the corner of Coggeshall Street and Ashley Boulevard in
1917 and converted one of the houses in to a church. This church
served communicants from all of Southeastern Massachusetts.

In 1935, the church was demolished and a new church was erected
on the same property and remains in service to the Greek
community today.

In 2004, the Parish purchased a parcel of wooded land on Cross
Road in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts. The current plan is to
erect a modern church building in the Byzantine style and an
attached community center.
The foregoing is taken primarily from "An Introduction to the History of the Greek
Community and Its Church of St. George in the Greater New Bedford Area" published
on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of St. George Greek Orthodox Church written
by V. Rev. Archimandrite Constantine Bebis.