Image: Line4323 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library

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Description: Russian Orthodox Church monastery at Monk's Lagoon on Icon Bay, Spruce Island, Alaska. The monastic building on Monks Lagoon contains a trapeza, chapel, small library, and sleeping quarters for people visiting St. Michael’s Skete, St. Nilus Skete and Saints Sergius and Herman of Valaam Chapel, built in 1898 over the site where St. Herman was buried on Spruce Island in December 1836. Pilgrims from around the world are coming to Spruce Island to commemorate America's first saint, Saint Herman of Alaska. Note Nereocystis luetkeana kelp in foreground.
Title: Line4323 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library
Credit: NOAA Photo Library: line4323
Author: John Adams, Kodiak Borough Educator. Credit: Collection of Frank Cantelas, NOAA/OAR/OER.
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License: Public domain
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Spruce Island (Alaska)

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