Posted by George Patsourakos
on 7/14/2009, 10:16 pm
The Russian Orthodox Museum in Anchorage, Alaska will be closing permanently in August, 2009, because of America's slumping economy, according to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR).
This museum was opened in July, 2005, in an effort to preserve, exhibit, and interpret the heritage and history of the Orthodox Church in Alaska, as it has existed from the eighteenth century to the present. Artifacts will be returned to the churches that donated them.
The closing of the Russian Orthodox Museum in Alaska is significant from a historical perspective for all American Orthodox Christians, since it was Russian immigrants who established the first Orthodox Church in North America at Kodiak Island in southeastern Alaska in September, 1794.
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