Castle Hill
Castle Hill also known as the American Flag-Raising Site and now as the Baranof Castle State Historic Site, is a National Historic Landmark and state park in Sitka, Alaska.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: National Historic Landmark and state park in Sitka, Alaska, USA
- Also known as: “Baranof Castle State Historic Site”, “Katalan’s Rock”, and “Noow Tlein”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Saint Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church and Sheet’ká Ḵwáan Naa Kahídi.
Saint Michael’s Russian Orthodox Church
Church
Photo: Barek, Public domain.
St. Michael's Cathedral is a cathedral of the Orthodox Church in America Diocese of Alaska, at Lincoln and Maksoutoff Streets in Sitka, Alaska. The earliest Orthodox cathedral in the New World, it was built in the nineteenth century, when Alaska was under the control of Russia, though this structure burned down in 1966.
Sheet’ká Ḵwáan Naa Kahídi
Community center
The Sheet'ká Ḵwáan Naa Kahídi is a performance venue and meeting space modelled after a Tlingit clan house in Sitka, Alaska. Its capacity is 300 people.
Sitka Lutheran Church
Church
Sitka Lutheran Church is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sitka, Alaska. Its first building was constructed in 1843 on what is now 224 Lincoln Street and was the first Protestant church in Alaska.
Castle Hill
- Categories: Alaska state park and tourism
- Location: Sitka, Southeastern Alaska, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
57.04867° or 57° 2′ 55″ northLongitude
-135.33804° or 135° 20′ 17″ westElevation
16 feet (5 metres)Open location code
94962MX6+FQOpenStreetMap ID
way 243594065OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Russian—“Castle Hill” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كاسل هيل (سيتكا)”
- Arabic: “كاسل هيل”
- German: “Castle Hill”
- Russian: “Замковый холм”
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