Editing Nikolaevsk, Alaska (section)

==History==
The town was settled by a group of [[Old Believers]] from [[Oregon]] around 1968, and remains a largely ethnic Russian town to this day.<ref>Vitaliev, Vitali. (n.d.) [http://www.travelintelligence.net/wsd/articles/art_584.html Old Believers in Alaska] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061029041021/http://www.travelintelligence.net/wsd/articles/art_584.html |date=October 29, 2006 }}, Travelintelligence.com. Retrieved November 9, 2009</ref> The travels of the group from Russia, as well as the story of the founding of Nikolaevsk, is told in a 1972 article in ''[[National Geographic]]'',<ref>Rearden, Jim. (September 1972).  A Bit of Old Russia Takes Root in Alaska. ''National Geographic'', 142:3, 401–424</ref> a 2013 episode on the [[National Geographic Channel|NatGeo]] channel called ''Russian Alaska'', and a 2013 article in ''The Atlantic'' magazine.<ref>Wendi Jonassen and Ryan Loughlin  [https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/05/a-17th-century-russian-community-living-in-21st-century-alaska/275440/ A 17th-Century Russian Community Living in 21st-Century Alaska] Retrieved July 8, 2017</ref>

The first church was built in 1983. The second church was constructed in 2014.

In May 2023, it became known that the Old Believers community of Nikolaevsk, Alaska, consisting of fr. Nikola Yakunin, his son Deacon Vasily Yakunin and about 20 families decided to join the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia]] (semi-autonomous part of [[Moscow Patriarchate]]) on the rights of the [[edinoverie]]. It was reported that the community was largely Americanized and it turned out to be problematic to pray in the already almost forgotten [[Church Slavonic language]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Старообрядцы Аляски воссоединились с Церковью на правах Единоверия |publisher= Сокрытая Русь |url=https://sokryt.ru/news/staroobryadcy-alyaski-vossoedinilis-s-cerkovyu-na-pravakh-edinoveriya |website=sokryt.ru |language=ru |date=May 19, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Alaskan Old Believers Reunited with the Church |publisher= Сокрытая Русь |url=https://sokryt.ru/en/news/alaskan-old-believers-reunited-church |website=sokryt.ru |language=en |date= May 19, 2023}}</ref> They planned to build a new church for the community in [[Homer, Alaska|Homer]], near Nikolaevsk, because the old church<ref>http://nikolaevsk.oldrite.org/</ref> will remain under the jurisdiction of the [[Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church]] according to U.S. law.{{Citation needed|date=February 2025}}