St. Nicholas Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
Built 1912, Depicts 1930
This country church was built in the rural community of Buczacz, 18 km (11 miles) north of the town of Innisfree. While the members of the church were not particularly wealthy, the church was built with materials better than those used to build their own homes.
During the 1920s, this church was served about once a month by a travelling priest from the Ukrainian Catholic monastery in Mundare. This was a common arrangement for rural churches in the 1920s, as there were more parishes in east central Alberta than available priests.
The secondary building in the yard is a bell tower. It is traditional in Eastern Byzantine Rite churches such as this one to have the bell in a separate structure.
