After reading about the history of this church, the phrase that comes to mind is, “It’s never easy, is it?”. Early settlers, both Catholic and Orthodox were encouraged by their ministers to build a place of worship in the area and did so together, completely the first church in September, 1899. The church was consecrated…
A simple log sanctuary was built on this land in 1904 by local Russian Orthodox partitioners. That church was destroyed by fire in 1914 but with financial help from the American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church another church was built by 1916. Around this time war and revolution in Eastern Europe made it very…
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…
A simple log sanctuary was built on this land in 1904 by local Russian Orthodox partitioners. That church was destroyed by fire in 1914 but with financial help from the American Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church another church was built by 1916. Around this time war and revolution in Eastern Europe at this time…
Like a number of other churches in the area, differences of belief and cultural background have separated groups of people who originally worshiped together. In this case the congregation of the St. John Ukrainian Orthodox Church originally shared the St. Michael’s Russo-Greek Orthodox Church across the road. Post from RICOH THETA. – Spherical Image –…
The land for this church was donated in 1911 and the church itself was built in 1917. The nearby bell tower was built in 1939. Canada’s Historic Places website points out that, like many of the churches in Lamont County, the building is significant because of the “the transference of religious traditions in the building…
After arriving in the Wostok area in 1896 Polish settlers began work on a log chapel in 1900, completing it in 1905. A few years later a church bell was purchased and a belfry built to house it. Work started on a new church in 1914 and was completed the next year. And in a…
Built in 1900 after three years of labour, this church has the distinction of being the oldest original church in Lamont county. Later, the land the church and cemetery were built on was purchased from the CPR over a six year period from 1903 to 1909. In 1922 the nearby bell tower was built and…
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…
