What stayed longest was the church. The Holy Assumption of the Virgin Mary Russian Orthodox Church, finished in 1896, is the oldest standing Russian Orthodox church in Alaska — a National Historic Landmark whose blue domes still rise over Old Town, with the small St. Nicholas Chapel of 1906 beside it on the old fort ground. Inside the church hangs a centuries-old icon of Our Lady of Kazan, among the oldest non-Native artworks in Alaska. More than a century on, the services are still held; Old Town Kenai is not a recreated village but a living one, a piece of Russian America that never quite left.
Today Kenai is the largest city on the Kenai Peninsula — a fishing and oil town that has kept both its Old Town church and its salmon river. Our Kenai designs gather that identity — the bear-and-1959 emblem, the onion domes, the river and the inlet — into wearable form. Kenai, Alaska — Old Town on the bluff, where the river meets the sea.
Why People Visit Kenai
Kenai pairs deep history with wide-open Alaska — a living Russian-era church, a salmon river that sets the summer's rhythm, and the long view across Cook Inlet to the mountains. It's accessible, working, and real: a Last-Frontier town that kept its old bones.
