Look for St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church on your trek up Fifth Street. Churches Backtrack on Calhoun, take the overhead walkway and trek down Fifth Street a little more than two blocks to the next stop, St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Church at 326 Fifth Street. Built in 1894 in Siberia, disassembled and shipped to Juneau, the church was refurbished in the late 1970s and is a national historic landmark. The octagonally shaped structure with an onion dome has 18th Century Russian icons and religious relics. It is included in A Guidebook to the 500 Most Notable Buildings in the United States.
Visitors stand during services.
The church also has a small bookstore and giftshop with postcards. Across Gold Street on Fifth Street is the Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, home to the Catholic Diocese of Juneau. Down one block on Gold Street at Fourth is Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, more than 100 years old. The House of Wickersham at 213 Seventh Street is open for Russian tea and cakes as well as storytelling by Bill Childers, dressed as the historic Judge Wickersham. Wickersham was responsible in part for the Alaska railroad, the University of Alaska, Denali National Park and statehood.