Palmer Divide Research

St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)

Also: Saint Mary's Holy Dormition Orthodox Church

ChurchesLiving todayEl Paso County

What we know

Frame church of 1932 with two onion cupolas (PPLD record of survey A35).

Where it was

'Five miles north of Calhan' (PPLD record of survey photo A35); the church at 19485 North Calhan Highway in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-05), 5.4 miles north of GNIS's Calhan point.

A feature drawn in OpenStreetMap, such as a park or a lake.

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Sources

Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.

Know more about St. Mary's Orthodox Church (1932)?

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