(excerpt from the book ‘The Greek presence in the horn of Africa’)
Between 1900 and 1920, hundreds of Greeks moved to Ethiopia for work. Karpathians and other Greek contractors built bridges, roads and set up the telegraph and telephone network. One of the most characteristic construction works of that time was the building of the cathedral of ‘St. George’ in Addis Ababa.The contract for the erection was assigned to Panagiotis Myriallis in 1909 and the temple was completed in two years.
