All Saints of Alaska Chapel

In 1844, St. Innocent [Veniaminov] organized the first Orthodox theological school in North America at Sitka, inaugurating a golden age of Orthodox educational ministry and mission in Alaska. This lasted until the catastrophe of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, when the last Russian-sponsored parochial school in Alaska closed.In September 1972, with the last surviving graduate of the Unalaska school in attendance, the Alaskan Diocesan Assembly voted unanimously to establish St. Herman of Alaska...