This church was built in 1907 and is named “Farus” after the original owner of the land on which it was built. As the “Lamont County’s Self-Guided Church Tours” booklet notes, “the church’s tripartite shape points to its early construction date, as does the closed dome and the absence of a choir loft, both of…
The original settlers in the area around this church were Romanian Bucovinian (https://www.britannica.com/place/Bukovina ). Early services were held in homes. Although the cemetery was in use beginning 1907, land for the church was purchased in 1910 and the church built over 3 years, completed in 1913. The nearby “bell-house” was built in following years at…
The Ukrainian Orthodox parish members of this church separated from the Holy Trinity Church in Sunland in 1929 and after purchasing the land this church was built in 1932. The church was destroyed by fire only one year later in 1933, with another being built in 1934. In 1960 the interior was completely remodelled with…
After the original congregation of this church was formed in 1898, services were held in private homes for a number of years before work was completed on a church in 1904. This structure lasted about 30 years before it burned down in the late 1930’s. The present church was built in 1939. 360 Photo Post…
The original church on this site was built from 1901 to 1904. A second, larger church was started in 1917 and completed the next year. Between 1945-51 funding for a new church was gathered with the old church being dismantled in 1959 and a new church, the present structure, was completed in 1960. This solid-looking…
Without the Orthodox cross mounted high on the steeple of this church, this church could pass for a United Church. That’s because it originally was a United Church. As the “Lamont County’s Self-Guided Church Tours” booklet explains, a number of local people became disenchanted with the Catholic Church I the area and in 1925 started…
After a small chapel was built on this land in 1914, work on the present church began in 1918 and was completed eight years later in 1926. The full name of the church when it was incorporated was “Ruthenian Greek Catholic Parish of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Leeshore”. The church bell…
Little did I know when I visited this church that this congregation “can be traced back to 1897–1898, making it one of the first Russo-Greek Orthodox parishes in Canada.” A modest log church was built on this land at that time and served until 1920. The logs from that church were saved and sawed into…
The original church on this site, then called “Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church of Chesnoho Khresta at Skaro”, was built from 1900 to 1917 and was destroyed by fire in 1942. The present church was built in 1945. The bell tower, however, is the original built in 1920. This is a very impressive church, first because…
A small church was built on this site in 1907 and then replaced by the current building, built in 1934-35. This makes it the oldest Polish parish in Alberta. Although the paint and the steeple need some work, it seems to me this building stands tall and proud. These days, mass and grave blessings are…
