The Keweenaw Peninsula attracted immigrants from all across the
globe who were looking for their own piece of the American Dream
in the deep underground of the Copper Country. Once they
arrived, these immigrants found themselves in a world in which
they neither spoke the language or understood the customs. By
necessity they sought out others like themselves who shared
their language and customs and in the process created a small
piece of their homeland here in the Copper Country. For many
this piece of home could be found in the pews of their church.
In the Copper Country’s infancy people would simply congregate
in a person’s home to worship, but as their numbers grew they
would pool their resources to construct a dedicated building for
services. In the beginning these churches would be strictly
denominational, resulting generally in the construction of a
Catholic and Protestant church. As ethnic groups began to grow
in number, they would have broken away from these multi-ethnic
congregations to build their o