Tanana Mission | |
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey | |
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| Location | At end of Cemetery Road, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Tanana, Alaska |
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| Coordinates | 65°10′28″N151°59′47″W / 65.17446°N 151.99627°W |
| Area | 2.5 acres (1.0 ha) |
| Built | 1899 |
| NRHP reference No. | 77000230 [1] |
| AHRS No. | TAN-018 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | August 3, 1977 |
| Designated AHRS | November 11, 1976 |
The Tanana Mission (also known as Mission of Our Saviour; Episcopal Mission) was a historic Episcopal church mission in Tanana, Alaska. Its abandoned church building and cemetery are listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. [1] [2]
It was deemed significant as a site preserving artifacts of the once-large Episcopal mission, which additionally included a hospital, a sawmill, a rectory, and a school. The site is located about 3 miles up from the current Tanana village location. It was deemed "important to the history of interior Alaska as a place where permanent native (Indian) community was established near the mission which located itself opposite the prehistoric trading center of many interior Athapaskan Indians - Nuchalawoyya" and also as representing "a place where native people learned and participated in the activities of a foreign culture", and as a burial site, and as for the architecture of its church. [2]
The church building has multiple gables above a 52-by-48-foot (16 m × 15 m) plan. [2] It was built in 1899 and added to the National Register in 1977. [1]
