Orthodox Church is a durable legacy of Alaska's Russian past The Russian Orthodox church ... a Russian pilgrim from St Petersburg. Nuns and monks here follow the traditions of St Herman - living a ...

The Holy Assumption Russian Orthodox Church in Kenai is one three ... It later became one of the vessels supplying the Alaska colony from St. Petersburg. On January 9, 1813, the Neva was within ...

A spokesman for the Russian Orthodox Church in St. Petersburg argued that the reclamation ... paid to purchase the Russian territory of Alaska in 1867. Alexander Kviatkovsky began working as ...

KENAI, Alaska - The Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church in Kenai, Alaska will undergo a major renovation for its 125th birthday. The church, which was erected in 1896 ...

Alaska is the biggest – yet one of the least populated American states. There are just over 741,000 people living there – oil industry workers, adventurers from all over the U.S., Native ...

EKLUTNA, Alaska (AP) — The Russian Orthodox church on the outskirts of Alaska’s biggest city is packed with treasures for the Christian faithful: religious icons gifted by Romanov czars ...

Alaska -- toward the historic St. Michael's Russian Orthodox Cathedral. "Everyone in town ran to the church and started passing things out, hand to hand, in long chains of people," said Father ...

visited Juneau Wednesday to meet with local parish leaders about renovations to the St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, one of Alaska’s oldest orthodox churches. “Basically, we’re here to ...

Sterry David Mahaffey Jr. had served as the Archbishop of the Diocese of Sitka and Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America since 2014. Mahaffey was raised Methodist and born in Pennsylvania but ...

A Western Alaska woman who died in 1979 has been named the first female Orthodox Church saint from North America. Born in 1916, Olinka Arrsamquq Michael, known as “Matushka Olga,” was known in ...

is the oldest continually-used Orthodox church in Southeast Alaska, and the only surviving octagonal Orthodox church in Alaska. Juneau’s Orthodox church was established at the request of local ...