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and re-consecrated in 1961. During reconstruction, the church temporarily used St Peter's Church on St Peter's Road. When St
Nicholas re-opened, attendance at St Peter's declined until the 1960s, when a growing Greek community had use of it, and in 1981 it became St Spiridon's Greek Orthodox Church.
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