Sitka Blockhouse - (The Tlingit chapel [Holy Trinity Church] was located here)

the area is known as "Block House Hill" today. This is a State Park, managed by the U.S. Dept of Interior, Bureau of Land Management.

I​n early 1960's replica of a Russian fortification around the town of Sitka, which was once the capital of Russian America. The structure was part of a defensive stockade built around Sitka in the early 1800s. It is located near the Orthodox Church's historic cemetery and is cooperatively managed by the National Park Service.

Holy Trinity Church was located close to the blockhouse in the stockade. The church was built in 1849 and consecrated by Bishop Innokentii. This church was built expressly for the local Tlingit community where services could be conducted in the Tlingit language. The church was built right into the stockade surrounding the little Russian town of Novoarkangel'sk (Sitka). The western door of the church opened to the Tlingit village; the eastern doors inside the stockade faced the Russian village. Because relations between the Russians and the Tlingit continued to be tense for decades after their initial conflict, the Russians were in a quandary about Tlingit conversion to the Orthodox Church. On the one hand, the Russians were gratified that so many Tlingit desired to attend church. On the other hand, they were uneasy about allowing up to 200 Tlingit at a time into the stockade to go to services. Holy Trinity Church was built to solve this problem.

The Block House was the site of a church that in part separated the Native Alaskan settlement from the Russian village, it is believed that Saint Jacob Netsvetov had been buried at the church's entrance.

https://www.blm.gov/programs/cultural-heritage-and-paleontology/archaeology/what-we-manage/alaska/sitka-blockhouse

https://noehill.com/ak_sitka/poi_sitka_blockhouse.asp

https://visitsitka.org/member/russian-block-house