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MARIA JARLSDOTTER ENCKELL
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Fig 7 Russian Alaska’s Evangelical Lutheran-church building, drawing by Ilia Voznesenskii, dated to about
April of 1843
in Swedish, 10 in German 5 in Estonian,
5 in Latvian (Enckell 1996:1-2).
By 1840 this small Russian era Evangelical
Lutheran church with its multi
ethnic membership, gathered under its
single roof, a mirroring in miniature
the following of St. Petersburg’s many
Evangelical Lutheran churches and
their parish:
• the Finnish & Ingrian language St.
Maria Church and parish,
• the Finnish Swedish language St.
Katarina Church and parish,
• the German St. Petri & St. Anna
Churches and parishes,
• the Estonian Yaani Kirik Church and
parish,
• the Latvian Jesus-Kirche Church and
parish
• Kronstadt’s St. Elisabet Church and
parish, as well as the several cadet-school
parishes in this city, and
not to be overlooked, all of: Finland’s,
Estland’s, Lifland’s and Kurland’s
Evangelical Lutheran parishes.
The ethnic, language, and cultural diversity
under its single roof was both
powerful as well as far from un-significant
in Alaska’s Russian Era History, and