St. Nicholas Church (Nikolski, Alaska)

St. Nicholas Church
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
File:Nikolski Orthodox Church Alaska HABS1.jpg
HABS photo by Jet Lowe, 1990
Location	In Nikolski, Nikolski, Alaska
Coordinates
Area	less than one acre
Built	1930
MPS	Russian Orthodox Church Buildings and Sites TR
NRHP Reference #	80000740
Added to NRHP	June 6, 1980

St. Nicholas Church is a historic Russian Orthodox church in Nikolski, Alaska, which is located at the southern end of Umnak Island.

The current church was built in 1930, and is believed to be the fourth church on the island: the first was built and was burned within the 1800s, the second was burned in 1898, the third was built in 1898-1900 a few miles away then moved to the current church location in about 1918, and was replaced in 1930. The church has a customary three-element design (altar section, nave, and vestibule section), with addition of a nearly independent bell tower. Its nave is larger and taller than usual among the Russian Orthodox churches of Alaska, and it has "simple detailing [which] coupled with small, economically severe, windows, suggests an almost Shaker design influence," according to a 1979 evaluation.

The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Aleutians West Census Area, Alaska

External links

• Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AK-69, "St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church, Nikolski, Aleutians West Census Area, AK"