Point Lay, AK is a remote Alaskan village of approximately 400 people. It is largely an Inupiaq community and the religious congregations in town reflect this. There are two churches in Point Lay: the Episcopal Church of the Arctic and St. Anne’s Catholic Church. The Episcopal Church of the Arctic offers weekly services on Sundays and Wednesday evenings. They also host prayer meetings, Bible study sessions, Sunday school classes, and other activities throughout the week. St. Anne’s Catholic Church also has regular weekly services held on Saturdays for mass and confession as well as special events like Lenten reconciliation service and other spiritual gatherings throughout the year. Both churches play an important role in providing spiritual guidance to the local community.
17.4% of the people in Point Lay are religious:
- 0.0% are Baptist
- 3.5% are Episcopalian
- 1.9% are Catholic
- 0.0% are Lutheran
- 0.0% are Methodist
- 4.7% are Pentecostal
- 5.5% are Presbyterian
- 1.3% are Church of Jesus Christ
- 0.4% are another Christian faith
- 0.0% are Judaism
- 0.0% are an eastern faith
- 0.0% affilitates with Islam
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