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Spasa Moskalyk Ukrainian Catholic Church

Historic Location Cemetery, Church in Lamont County, Alberta, Canada

Aug 30 2024

Cemetery Church

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Recent status	Historic Location
Location #	20781

Hazards of Spasa Moskalyk Ukrainian Catholic Church

Gated - Insures people cannot drive right in, but man gate is unlocked

History of Spasa Moskalyk Ukrainian Catholic Church

Early settlers in the area built a small chapel here in 1904, but this burned to the ground while the present church was being built in 1924. The bell tower beside the church was constructed in 1938.

The church was gradually falling into disrepair and in 2013, an engineering report stated "the foundation was unstable and it could cost up to $400,000 to repair it.”

In 2013, a meeting was held to decide on the church’s fate and instead of proceeding with a controlled burn of the building, with the local fundraising, it was decided to save the structure and move the church to a new foundation. The move was completed in December, 2016.

The community & Parish members painted the exterior and some interior, and did repairs on the roof in 2018.

The Church is now used for special events.

The wood-frame church of Spasa has architectural value as a representative example of an elaborate cruciform plan church with a central drum and onion-shaped dome, a design that characterizes church architecture in the Byzantine tradition as it evolved in western Canada. It features a distinct narthex flanked by twin towers each with the octagonal drum rising out of a pyramidal roof line flush with the eaves of the nave, and capped by the onion-shaped dome with a metal Latin cross with trefoil ends, matching that of the central dome.

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