Боднарі́

 

A beautiful sight on a country road from this past summer.

There were several families named "Bodnar" living near the church resulting in the parish being called "Bodnari."

The church was built in 1936 and...

...the bell tower was erected in 1920.  It's not often that a bell tower precedes the construction date of a church but there is a simple explanation for it: this is the original bell tower from the previous and much smaller log church that sat just north of the existing parish.  

Bodnari Ukrainian Catholic Church of Saints Peter and Paul is near Alvena, Saskatchewan, an area rich in Ukrainian settler history.

Information courtesy of the Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Saskatoon.

Photographed on August 4, 2020.