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Tanana Mission

Coordinates: 65°10′28″N 151°59′47″W / 65.17446°N 151.99627°W / 65.17446; -151.99627
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Tanana Mission
Alaska Heritage Resources Survey
Tanana Mission is located in Alaska
Tanana Mission
LocationAt end of Cemetery Road, about 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Tanana, Alaska
Coordinates65°10′28″N 151°59′47″W / 65.17446°N 151.99627°W / 65.17446; -151.99627
Area2.5 acres (1.0 ha)
Built1899
NRHP reference No.77000230[1]
AHRS No.TAN-018
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 3, 1977
Designated AHRSNovember 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 artifacts of the once-large Episcopal mission, which additionally includeda hospital, a sawmill, a rectory, and a school. It 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]

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  1. ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b c "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Tanana Mission (AHRS SITE NO. TAN-018) / Mission of Our Saviour, Episcopal Mission". National Park Service. and accompanying photo from 1976