Mud Bay Indian Shaker Church

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Mud Bay Indian Shaker Church
Shaker Church at Mud Bay c. 1892.png
1896 drawing of the church building
Religion
Affiliation Indian Shaker Church
DistrictThurston
Location
Municipality Mud Bay near Olympia
StateWashington
CountryUnited States
Mud Bay Indian Shaker Church
Geographic coordinates 47°03′38″N123°01′01″W / 47.0606°N 123.0170°W / 47.0606; -123.0170
Architecture
Completedc. 1885, rebuilt in 1910 [1]
Specifications
Length24-foot (7.3 m)
Width18-foot (5.5 m)
Materials Unfinished wood
The rebuilt church as it appeared in 2015 Mud Bay Indian Shaker Church 2015.2.jpg
The rebuilt church as it appeared in 2015

Mud Bay Indian Shaker Church is the first church built by the Indian Shaker Church. [2]

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The first Shaker Indian church, also called the "mother church", was built c. 1885 near Olympia, then the capital of Washington Territory. The structure was built on a shoulder of the Black Hills above Mud Bay, [3] at the southern end of Eld Inlet, an arm of Puget Sound. [4] [5] [6] [7] It was near the homes of Louis "Mud Bay Louie" Yowaluch (aka Mud Bay Louis) and his brother Sam "Mud Bay Sam" Yowaluch, co-founders of the church, [8] first and second "headman"s respectively. Mud Bay Sam was the first Bishop (church leader) after incorporation of Shaker Indian Church in 1910. [4]

The original church was oriented in an east-west direction, in a manner that would set the pattern for subsequent church architecture. [9] The earliest several churches were about 18-by-24-foot (5.5 m × 7.3 m) plain wooden buildings with 10-foot (3.0 m) shingle roofs, stout wooden doors and floors. [10] The Mud Bay church was rebuilt in 1910. [9]

See also

References

  1. Barnett 1972, p. 50.
  2. SOS 1996.
  3. Steele 1957, p. 11.
  4. 1 2 SOS 1996, p. 3.
  5. Wilkinson 2012, p. 253.
  6. Ruby & Brown 1996, p. 117.
  7. Kirk & Alexander 1995, p. 354.
  8. Mooney 1896, pp. 754 and 758.
  9. 1 2 Potter 1976.
  10. Evening Post 1896, p. 8.

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