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Location
Mission & Overland Streets, Kenai, AK

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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.

Notes
Survey number HABS AK-39-A
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (FN-12).
Building/structure dates: 1895 initial construction
Building/structure dates: 1900 subsequent work
Significance: One of the oldest Russian Orthodox churches in Alaska, Holy Assumption Church has a high, square, pyramidal-roofed nave framed by two gable-roofed sections. The belltower, 81' to the top of its cross, was added five years after initial construction. The log church, now clad with beveled siding, was built in 1894-95. / The Holy Assumption Russian Orthodox Church was built in 1895-96 according to a common rural Russian design. In 1900, the bell tower and the fence around the church were both completed. Since then, minor changes have been made to the exterior, including a series of modifications to the bell tower windows. Aside from these alterations, this classic, Russian-style village church looks much the same today as it did in 1905.

Subjects
Courthouses
Log Buildings
Schools


Related Names
Kenaitz Indians


Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Contents
Photograph caption(s): 
1. WEST FRONT
2. SOUTH SIDE
3. EAST AND NORTH SIDES
4. INTERIOR, NAVE, LOOKING EAST
5. INTERIOR, NAVE, LOOKING SOUTHWEST
6. INTERIOR, NAVE, DETAIL OF ICONSTAS, ROYAL DOOR CLOSED
7. INTERIOR, NAVE, DETAIL OF ICONSTAS, ROYAL DOORS OPEN, SHOWING ALTAR
EAST AND NORTH SIDES
INTERIOR, NAVE, DETAIL OF ICONSTAS, ROYAL DOORS OPEN, SHOWING ALTAR
INTERIOR, NAVE, ICONOSTAS


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