Happiest Cemetery

Old Church, circa late 1800's

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Cemetery

Today I stopped at a Russian Orthodox, Athabascan church and cemetery in Eklutna. Normally cemeteries make me very depressed, but I really liked this one. I want bright colors on my grave. The church is Russian Orthodox (first introduced to Alaska with Russian fur traders in 18th century) but the local community is Athabascan (Native American, I asked, but I forgot the specific name) whose belief that the soul remains near the body for a year, and so they build these houses over the graves.