Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord Chapel

Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord Chapel
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
Location Orthodox Avenue, Mile 135 of Sterling Highway, Ninilchik, Alaska
Coordinates 60°3′1″N 151°39′55″W / 60.05028°N 151.66528°W / 60.05028; -151.66528Coordinates: 60°3′1″N 151°39′55″W / 60.05028°N 151.66528°W / 60.05028; -151.66528
Area 0.4 acres (0.16 ha)
Built 1901
Architect Alexi Andreev Oskolfoff
MPS Russian Orthodox Church Buildings and Sites TR (AD)
NRHP reference # 78003426[1]
AHRS # KEN-046
Significant dates
Added to NRHP May 22, 1978
Designated AHRS May 18, 1973

The Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord Chapel is a historic Russian Orthodox church located near Ninilchik, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, that was built in 1901. It is an approximately 20-by-50-foot (6.1 m × 15.2 m) roughly cruxiform-shaped building, mainly designed by Alexi Andreev Oskolkoff who came from Sitka to supervise the building's construction. The 1901 church replaced an older church built near Ninilchik village's 1846 founding. As of 1977, the church competed only with a largely altered schoolhouse as an artifact of past Russian associations to the community.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.[1][2]

Now it is under Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America[3].

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 Joseph P. Kreta (September 26, 1977). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord (Orthodox) Chapel (AHRS Site No. KEN-046)". National Park Service. and accompanying three photos from 1976
  3. ↑ https://oca.org/parishes/oca-ak-nintol


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