(Excerpt from the book ‘The Greek community of Tanzania’)
Archimandrite Nicodemos Sarikas left Asia Minor in the early 20th
century and immigrated to South Africa in 1907. In 1912 he settled in
Moshi of Tanganyika where he started his missionary work and applied for
a plot in order to become a farmer. Since the German admi
nistration
refused, in August of 1912, Antonis Mamakos offered him a small plot and
a house inside his estate. Finally, a few months later with the
intervention of a few members of the local Greek community, such as
Kostas Meimaridis, Michael Filios, Evriviadis Panagiotakopoulos and
Michael Lamos, he was granted a plot of 30 acres. A few years later,
inside this plot the first orthodox church of Tanganyika was built.
