List of Indian Shaker Church buildings in Washington

The Indian Shaker Church on the Tulalip Reservation in Snohomish County, one of the last built, as it appeared in 2013

This is a list of Indian Shaker Church buildings in Washington state. Indian Shaker Church building architecture is unique to the Pacific Northwest, with unadorned, unpainted rectangular woooden structure.[1]

The list is derived from Washington Secretary of State archives unless noted.[2]

Mud Bay church

The first Indian Shaker Church at Mud Bay, Eld Inlet, Washington State, circa 1892

The first Shaker Indian church (47°03′38″N 123°01′01″W / 47.0606°N 123.0170°W / 47.0606; -123.0170), also called the "mother church", was built near Olympia on a shoulder of the Black Hills above Mud Bay,[7] at the southern end of Eld Inlet, an arm of Puget Sound.[8][9][10][11] It was near the homes of Louis "Mud Bay Louie" Yowaluch (aka Mud Bay Louis) and his brother Sam "Mud Bay Sam" Yowaluch, co-founders of the church,[12] first and second "headman"s respectively. Mud Bay Sam was the first Bishop (church leader) after incorporation of Shaker Indian Church in 1910.[8]

The original church was oriented in an east-west direction, in a manner that would set the pattern for subsequent church architecture.[13] The earliest several churches were about 18-by-24-foot (5.5 m × 7.3 m) plain wooden buildings with 10-foot (3.0 m) shingle roofs, stout wooden doors and floors.[14] The Mud Bay church was rebuilt in 1910.[13]

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