Kilwarlin Moravian Church, County Down and its link to ancient Greece and the Battle of Thermopylae
Zula left Greece during the War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire.
The church originated in Bohemia in the 15th Century - it is now a worldwide Christian church and is best known in Northern Ireland for the Moravian settlement at Gracehill in County Antrim.The ex-soldier joined the church and was ordained as a Moravian minister. The couple found themselves in the tiny village of Kilwarlin, near Hillsborough.And in 1841, next to the little church he built his battlefield garden - a landscaped representation of the area where the Battle of Thermopylae was fought.
She explains that the stories of ancient Greece "are exotic but they are timeless, they can apply to us today".A statue of the famous Spartan king and warrior Leonidas now watches over the hot spring of ThermopylaeOne of the most celebrated military actions in ancient Greece, in 480 BC, a vastly outnumbered army of Greeks took on an invading army of Persians led by King Xerxes I.
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