The Protection of the Theotokos Chapel is a historic Russian Orthodox chapel on Kodiak Island,

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, along E Street at Akhiok, Alaska. Now it is under Diocese of Alaska of the

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The church was built early in the 20th century, exact date not known but soon after 1900. It is not the first church on the site. It has a unique design, one that is simple, but with "details reminiscent of the more ambitious churches built ten to twenty years earlier at Belkofsky and Karluk". It has an approximately

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and a altar chamber. (continuation sheet from thematic resources document) and It was added to the

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in 1980. The

Ascension of Our Lord Chapel The Ascension of Our Lord Chapel (russian: Вознесение Часовни Господа нашего) is a historic Russian Orthodox chapel in Karluk, Alaska. Now it is under Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America It is belie ...

at Karluk and the Holy Resurrection Church at Belkofski were also listed on the National Register on the same date.

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