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Malbis died while on a trip to Greece in 1942. He had left written instructions for his survivors to "build a Greek
Orthodox church for me in Malbis." The community accomplished this in 1965, with the construction of the church financed through the sale of the plantation's bakery on Broad Street in
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damaged much of the elaborate interior iconography, especially that in the dome. After a series of failed restorations, Mobile-area artist David Riall was hired to restore the church, using research and experimentation to indistinguishably match the
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around 1900. He changed his name to Malbis while there and then, along with one of his friends, William
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church was designed by the architectural firm of
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