The St. Nicholas Church in Pilot Point, Alaska, in

Lake and Peninsula Borough Lake and Peninsula Borough (russian: Лейк-энд-Пенинсула, ''Leyk-end-Peninsula'') is a Borough (United States)#Alaska, borough in the U.S. state, state of Alaska. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population wa ...

, is a

Russian Orthodox church , native_name_lang = ru , image = Moscow July 2011-7a.jpg , imagewidth = , alt = , caption = Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia , abbreviation = ROC , type ...

whose historic building was listed on the U.S.

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1980. Now it is under Diocese of Alaska of the

Orthodox Church in America The Orthodox Church in America (OCA) is an Eastern Orthodox Christian church based in North America. The OCA is partly recognized as autocephalous and consists of more than 700 parishes, missions, communities, monasteries and institutions ...

The listing included one

contributing building In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

(the church) and one

contributing object In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...

(a bell). The church, according to one source, was built in 1886; according to another it was built in 1912. It is "a modest rectangular building", in dimension. (continuation sheets from Thematic Resources document) and It was listed on the

in 1980.

References

Buildings and structures in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska Russian Orthodox church buildings in Alaska Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska {{Alaska-church-stub