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A Monastic Chapel for Spruce Island, Alaska

By Andrew Gould on May 21, 2019
A Monastic Chapel for Spruce Island, Alaska

In a part of America that is rich with historic Orthodox churches, a new one, faithful to the local architectural tradition, is now under construction. In the spring of 2018 I travelled to Spruce Island, where St. Herman of Alaska lived from 1808 until his death in 1837. I had come to design a new […]

Posted in Architecture | Tagged Alaska, Andrew Gould, New World Byzantine, Russian Orthodox, saint herman of alaska, Saint Michael's Skete, spruce island October 2, 2019
 

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