Archimandrite Euthymios (Greek: Ευθύμιος) of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre encouraged them to establish a neighborhood outside the Old City's overcrowded Christian Quarter.

[1] Architect Spyro Houris (Greek: Σπύρος Χουρής) designed the first twenty homes and a community center before World War I.

[dubious – discuss] After the war, apartment blocks were hastily built to accommodate large numbers of Jewish immigrants from Yemen and Morocco.

The birthing hospital, Misgav Ledach, which was originally established in 1854 in the Old City of Jerusalem, funded by the Rothschild family, was later moved to the Greek Colony, and has been there since then.

[5] In July 2007, archaeological excavations in the Greek Colony prior to the construction of a residential building carried out by the Israel Antiquities Authority found remains of a northeast-southwest oriented wall.