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Reply Each year, Lekkas Photography & Video​ of Tarpon Springs documents the annual Tarpon Springs Epiphany celebration. This year, Lekkas Photography & Video will livestream the event. (Beeba Lekkas) TARPON SPRINGS, FL — Tarpon Springs' famous religious observance, the Epiphany, will still be celebrated this year. However, this year's celebration will undergo some changes due to the coronavirus pandemic. The annual celebration in honor of the baptism of Jesus Christ by St. John the Baptist in the River Jordan will be celebrated on Jan. 6 at St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral in Tarpo...

For the first time, spectators are banned from attending Tarpon Springs Epiphany By Matthew McClellan and FOX 13 News Staff Published  File image of previous Epiphany celebration in Tarpon Springs, Fla. TARPON SPRINGS, Fla. - Tarpon Springs' Epiphany celebration typically draws thousands of spectators, but when the young divers head into the water in January, the event will be closed to the public for the first time in 115 years.  The city made the call because of the risk of COVID-19 and concerns that a crowded event could turn deadly if carried out as usual. St. Nicholas Church is ...