St. John the Baptist Church
The St. John the Baptist Church is a historic Russian Orthodox Church in Angoon, Alaska, United States. It is currently in the Diocese of Alaska of the Orthodox Church in America This modest wood-frame village church was built 1928–1929, after a fire destroyed the previous church of the parish, at Killisnoo, in 1927.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Jet Lowe, Public domain.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Orthodox
- Description: Russian Orthodox Church in Angoon, Alaska
- Also known as: “St. John the Baptist Orthodox Church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Angoon Seaplane Base.
Angoon Seaplane Base
Aerodrome
Angoon Seaplane Base is a state-owned public-use seaplane base located one nautical mile southeast of the central business district of Angoon, a city on Admiralty Island in the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area of the U.S. state of Alaska.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Angoon and Killisnoo.
Angoon
Village
Angoon is a city on Admiralty Island, Alaska, United States. At the 2000 census the population was 572; by the 2010 census the population had declined to 459.
Killisnoo
Hamlet
Killisnoo was an unincorporated community on Killisnoo Island in the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska, near Angoon, Admiralty Island. Killisnoo is situated 2½ miles south of St. John the Baptist Church.
St. John the Baptist Church
- Categories: Protestant church building, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Hoonah-Angoon, Alaska, United States, North America
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Latitude
57.50354° or 57° 30′ 13″ northLongitude
-134.58716° or 134° 35′ 14″ westElevation
72 feet (22 metres)Inception
1929Open location code
9497GC37+C4OpenStreetMap ID
way 592842000OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=orthodoxGeoNames ID
11550853Wikidata ID
Q16900560
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In Other Languages
“St. John the Baptist Church” goes by many names.
- Fulah: “St. John the Baptist Church (Angoon, Alaska”
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