Mission and Overland Sts., Kenai, Alaska. County/parish: Kenai Peninsula.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 10, 1970. NRIS 70000898.
3 contributing buildings.Also known as:
Holy Assumption Orthodox Church (Russian: Свято-Успенская церковь), also known as Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, is a Russian Orthodox parish church in Kenai, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska, United States. Completed in 1896, it is the oldest-standing Russian Orthodox church in Alaska and was a major center for the assimilation of the local Native population. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places shortly after.
Today the church is a member of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of Alaska and further the Kenai Deanery.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75325303