The old St. Nicholas Church in Eklutna, which predates the city of Anchorage, has been in disrepair for years, and a $350,000 federal grant is intended to tackle many of the big issues.
On a recent sunny day in May, Russian Orthodox priest Timothy Kolb unlocked a padlock securing the door to Anchorage’s oldest standing building and stepped inside. The small, rough-hewn building looks like a log cabin and is easy to overlook next to the taller, brighter, onion-domed new St. Nicholas Church.
Around the time of Nixon’s visit, the church would have been filled with worshippers during Sunday service.“When I was little boy, say 6, thereabout, you had to be in the church for 12 hours,” said Lee Stephan, 68, vice president of the Alaska Native village corporation Eklutna Inc. “And lo and behold, if you were a young person and you couldn’t stand for 12 hours — you didn’t believe in God, I guess.
Other major work planned on the structure includes repairing the roof, re-chinking the logs and shoring up the bell tower, as well as adding fire-suppression equipment. “It just wouldn’t be an Orthodox church without icons,” said Kolb. “It would just be bare walls. But with the icons there, that makes it the church. They are really essential for our Orthodox belief, our Orthodox worship.”
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