The Church is a powerful point of reference and link for Greeks in the United States.

Estimates put Greek Americans at between 1.2 and 3 million. According to the U.S. Census, 264,066 people over the age of five spoke Greek at home in 2019.

protothema.gr found some of them in Washington, which, as is well known, does not have the largest concentration of expatriates as cities like New York, Chicago, Boston, and Tarpon Springs, Florida.

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We were at the Greek Orthodox Church of St. Constantine and St. Helen, 25 kilometers outside the center of the American capital.

A church built by Greeks, supporters of the monarchy, at the beginning of the last century and with much effort and effort they managed not only to maintain it but to expand it in the context of a thriving community whose main goal was the preservation of tradition and the Greek language.

We spoke with some of them, they expressed their concerns given the elections and their nostalgia for Greece. Some of them also spoke in front of protothema.gr’s camera, commenting on the one hand that there is polarization in American society and on the other hand that the Greek community in the US has power, forcing politicians of both major parties to reach out to it. In the aftermath of the debate, most of those who were in the church for the divine service supported the candidacy of Donald Trump.