Greek War Veterans Monument

Utah's Greeks came for the mines and the railroads, and they paid for their place here in blood—fifty of them killed in a single 1924 explosion at Castle Gate, more in the rail camps and smelters, and a generation that met suspicion for keeping their language and church. This monument at Holy Trinity Cathedral, raised by the Hellenic Cultural Association in 1988, gathers all of it: the immigrant dead of Utah's industries alongside the thirty-eight Greek Utahns killed in the World Wars and Korea. A community that was told it wasn't American, insisting otherwise in stone.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Square — 0.7 mi
  The spiritual and architectural heart of Salt Lake City
• Salt Lake City — 0.7 mi
  Utah's capital and largest city — where the Wasatch Range meets the Great Salt Lake.
• Liberty Park — 1.8 mi
  Salt Lake Citys beloved 80-acre urban park since 1882
• Ensign Peak — 2.0 mi
  A short hike to the spot where Brigham Young surveyed the valley

More markers nearby

• Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church — steps away
• The Flag of the United States of America in Old Fort — steps away
• First Pioneer Fort in Valley PTLA #23 — steps away
• Pioneer Square — steps away