Melting Pot Exemplified

St Mary's Orthodox North of Calhan, originally uploaded by imjohnmoore.

A view from the south of St Mary's Holy Dormition Orthodox Church.

A large number of the early settlers in this area were immigrants from Slovakia and they brought the Eastern Orthodox faith with them. This church was completed in the 1930s after a schism in the Church when the Soviet Union created the Reformed Living Church and claimed ownership of the original Orthodox church in Calhan. The original Calhan church burned down and was replaced by what is called the Old Tower Church.