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The '''St. Seraphim Chapel''', in ], in ], is a historic ] church that may include a portion built in 1843, or it may have all been built later. It was listed on the ] in 1980.<ref name=nris/> |
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The '''St. Seraphim Chapel''', in ], in ], is a historic ] church that may include a portion built in 1843, or it may have all been built later. It was listed on the ] in 1980.<ref name=nris/> |
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The community has a 1975-built new church used for Russian Orthodox services; this is an old church that is either a later enlargement of an original church built probably in 1843 or it is wholly a later 1800s replacement. The old church "is in the best tradition of a merger of the heritage of log cabin construction and of the tri-part churches of the R.O. faith in Americanized Alaska. This is, essentially, a centrally balanced structure" in three parts: vestibule, ], and altar chamber. Each section is built by squared logs with corner dovetailing and "straight butt joints where logs are not full length for a side". It is suggested that the building "is a unique example in Alaska, perhaps in North America, of a building of logs of this type, size, function, and antiquity."<ref name=nrhptr>{{cite web |url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/64000002.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Russian Orthodox Church Buildings and Sites Thematic Resources |author=Alfred Mongin and Father Joseph P. Kreta |date=June 14, 1979 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite web|url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/80004586.pdf |title= St. Seraphim Chapel (Old Church) (AHRS SITE NO. RUS-017) |author=Alfred Mongin and Father Joseph P. Kreta |date=June 14, 1979 |publisher=National Park Service}} (continuation sheet from thematic resources document) and </ref> |
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The community has a 1975-built new church used for Russian Orthodox services; this is an old church that is either a later enlargement of an original church built probably in 1843 or it is wholly a later 1800s replacement. The old church reflects the influence of traditional three-part Russian Orthodox ecclesiastical architecture in America expressed in the style of a log cabin. Balanced in the center, it is divided into three parts: vestibule, ], and altar chamber. Each section is built by squared logs with corner dovetailing and straight butt joints at points where the logs are shorter. A 1979 survey suggested that no other extant log church in Alaska (and perhaps nowhere else in all of North America) of its age possessed comparable construction.<ref name=nrhptr>{{cite web |url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/64000002.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Russian Orthodox Church Buildings and Sites Thematic Resources |author=Alfred Mongin and Father Joseph P. Kreta |date=June 14, 1979 |publisher=National Park Service}}</ref><ref name=nrhpdoc>{{cite web|url=http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NRHP/Text/80004586.pdf |title= St. Seraphim Chapel (Old Church) (AHRS SITE NO. RUS-017) |author=Alfred Mongin and Father Joseph P. Kreta |date=June 14, 1979 |publisher=National Park Service}} (continuation sheet from thematic resources document) and </ref> |
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The community has a 1975-built new church used for Russian Orthodox services; this is an old church that is either a later enlargement of an original church built probably in 1843 or it is wholly a later 1800s replacement. The old church reflects the influence of traditional three-part Russian Orthodox ecclesiastical architecture in America expressed in the style of a log cabin. Balanced in the center, it is divided into three parts: vestibule, nave, and altar chamber. Each section is built by squared logs with corner dovetailing and straight butt joints at points where the logs are shorter. A 1979 survey suggested that no other extant log church in Alaska (and perhaps nowhere else in all of North America) of its age possessed comparable construction.
