Protection of the Theotokos Church

In the fall of 1960 construction of St Michael the Archangel Chapel at Marshall was completed.  Before 1960 church services were held at the log home of the late Church Warden Andrew Shorty.  The late Very Rev Vasily Changsak, who was based at Russian Mission, was the pastor of this small but growing parish.The chapel contains the iconostas (icon screen) from the Church of the Holy Protection originally built between 1842 and 1845 at the Mikhailovsky Redoubt now known as St Michael, Alaska by Pe...