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.
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. As of the 2020 census, Angoon had a population of 357. For statistical purposes, it is in the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area.
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″ north
Longitude
-134.58699° or 134° 35′ 13″ west
Elevation
72 feet (22 metres)
Inception
1929
Open location code
9497GC37+C6
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OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worship
OpenStreetMap feature
building=yes
OpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=orthodox
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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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