The Immaculate Conception Church is a historic church and former cathedral at 115 N. Cushman Street in
Fairbanks, Alaska
Fairbanks is a Municipal home rule, home rule city and the county seat, borough seat of the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska, United States. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior Alaska, interior region of Alaska and the second la ...
, United States.
Built in 1904, it was the first Roman Catholic Church erected in Alaska's interior.
The church was originally located on Dunkel Street, but in the winter of 1911–12, the church was moved across the
Chena River
The Chena River (; Tanana Athabascan: Ch'eno' "river of something (game)") is a tributary of the Tanana River in the Interior region of the U.S. state of Alaska. It flows generally west from the White Mountains to the Tanana River near the ...
to its present location
so that it would be closer to St. Joseph's Hospital, which closed in the 1970s. After the move, the basement of rough frame structure was enlarged to provide a parish hall, it was wired for electricity, and a parish house was built adjacent. The steeple and vestibule were added in 1914, the roof was raised, and the choir gallery added. Its stained glass windows were added in 1926–28.
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The church was listed on the ]National Register of Historic Places
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in 1976.
See also
*List of Catholic cathedrals in the United States
The Catholic Church in the United States comprises ecclesiastical territories called dioceses, eparchies, and ordinariates led by prelate Ordinary (church officer), ordinaries known as bishops. Each bishop is assigned to a cathedral from which ...
*List of cathedrals in the United States
This is a list of cathedrals in the United States, including both actual cathedrals (seats of bishops in Episcopal polity, episcopal Christian groups, such as Catholic Church, Catholicism, Anglicanism, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy an ...
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References
1904 establishments in Alaska
Buildings and structures in Fairbanks, Alaska
Relocated buildings and structures in Alaska
Roman Catholic cathedrals in Alaska
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska
Former cathedrals in the United States
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1904
Roman Catholic churches in Alaska
Roman Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United States
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