Photo, Print, Drawing Holy Ascension Russian Orthodox Church, Unalaska Island, Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, AK Photos from Survey HABS AK-37-A

Title

• Holy Ascension Russian Orthodox Church, Unalaska Island, Unalaska, Aleutian Islands, AK

Other Title

• Church of the Holy Ascension

Names

• Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
• Nicholas (Bishop)
• Newman, Rudolph
• Alaska Commercial Company
• Innocent (Bishop)
• Veniaminov, Ioann
• McPartland, Mary, transmitter
• Lowe, Jet, photographer
• Faulkner, Sandra M., historian
• Schwan, Lynda B., transmitter
• Hoagland, Alison K., historian
• Jandoli, Liz, transmitter
• Creech, James, field team
• Feinberg, Andrew, field team
• Solovjova, Kate, field team
• Todd, Raymond, field team
• Velichko, Lidia, field team
• Lashkevich, Alex, field team
• Peterson, Steven M., project manager
• Bartholomew, Brian, field team
• State of Alaska, sponsor
• Icon Preservation Task Force, sponsor

Created / Published

• Documentation compiled after 1933

Headings

• -  Orthodox churches
• -  religious facilities
• -  cruciform plan
• -  iconostasis
• -  bell towers
• -  icons
• -  religions
• -  onion domes
• -  Alaska--Aleutian Islands--Unalaska

Latitude / Longitude

• 53.87549,-166.536174

Notes

• -  Significance: One of the oldest Russian Orthodox churches in Alaska, the Holy Ascension Church of 1894 has a cruciform plan but a hip-roofed nave that emphasizes its squareness. Featuring three altars, this church is rivaled only by St. Michael's Cathedral in Sitka for size and grandeur. In addition, the site is associated with Fr. Innocent (Veniaminov), the Russian Orthodox missionary priest who studied Aleut language and culture while located here in the early nineteenth century.
• -  Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2132
• -  Survey number: HABS AK-37-A
• -  Building/structure dates: 1894-1896 Initial Construction
• -  Building/structure dates: ca. 1910 Subsequent Work
• -  Building/structure dates: before 1961
• -  National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000112

Medium

• Photo(s): 26
• Color Transparencies: 9
• Measured Drawing(s): 12
• Data Page(s): 16
• Photo Caption Page(s): 4

Call Number/Physical Location

• HABS AK,1-UNAK,1A-

Source Collection

• Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)

Repository

• Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Control Number

• ak0101

Rights Advisory

• No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

Online Format

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• pdf