Port Heiden, Alaska is a small community located on the Alaska Peninsula in the Aleutian Islands. This remote village of around 150 inhabitants is home to a number of local religious congregations. The main church of the village is the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church, which serves a primarily Catholic congregation. Across from the Catholic Church stands a smaller Orthodox Christian Church for those who practice Eastern Orthodoxy. Both churches are served by missionaries who come from larger cities and provide spiritual guidance to their congregations. In addition, Port Heiden also has several smaller nondenominational churches that offer weekly services to their members. These churches provide an invaluable resource to this rural community, as they provide spiritual guidance and a sense of connection to one another in such a small and isolated location.
70.6% of the people in Port Heiden are religious:
- 0.0% are Baptist
- 0.0% are Episcopalian
- 70.3% are Catholic
- 0.0% are Lutheran
- 0.0% are Methodist
- 0.0% are Pentecostal
- 0.0% are Presbyterian
- 0.0% are Church of Jesus Christ
- 0.0% are another Christian faith
- 0.0% are Judaism
- 0.0% are an eastern faith
- 0.0% affilitates with Islam
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