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Saint Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church
Juneau, Alaska
In 1892, a delegation of Tlingit chiefs
in Juneau met with the Russian Orthodox Bishop NICHOLAS
and requested to be baptized. From this meeting grew the
parish of St. Nicholas and the Church that was built in
1894 on donated Tlingit land with local lumber and labor.
Designed by the community, the Church was shaped as an octagon,
making it unique among Alaska's Orthodox houses of worship.
The belfry was added in 1905. The rectory was built at the
same time on the plot. It is one of the few original rectories
that survive. In 1916, Rev. Andrew Kashevarov came to Juneau
as priest. He is also well known as the first curator of
the Alaska State Museum, assuming that role in 1920. Among
the oldest original Orthodox structures still standing in
alaska, the Church of St. Nicholas and the Rectory are both
on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Saint Sergius of Radonezh Orthodox Church
Chuathbaluk, Alaska
This Church on the Kuskokwim River
in interior Alaska is identified with two of the five Orthodox
Saints of North America: St. Tikhon (Bellavin) and St. Iakov
(Netsvetov). The first Orthodox priest to serve the Yup'ik
of the Yukon-Kuskokwim region was the Aleut Iakov Netsvetov.
He built the first house of worship, the Chapel of the Transfiguration,
at Chuathbaluk in the 1850's. The present Church of St. Sergius
of Radonezh was dedicated in 1905. Bishop Tikhon, head of
the Diocese of Aleutian islands and North America and later
Patriarch of Russia, visited in 1900 while the Church was
under construction. At Chuathbaluk, he performed the first
liturgy by a bishop in the Yukon-Kuskokwim region. The Church
is on the National Register of Historic Places.
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