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Prayer House - Oospennie village site 1993

Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

In the late 1980’s, I was approached by a friend, Gabriel Assoignon, who had come by some glass plate negatives from an amateur photographer who had lived in the Livingstone municipality near Pelly Sk. The photographer’s name was Peter Bloudoff and in 1994 I produced an exhibit of his photographs titled, “A Doukhobor Camera”, that was shown at the Manitoba Museum in Winnipeg. Peter Bloudoff was from the village of Kamenka, closer to Pelly Sk. The entire collection and research materials are now in the holdings of the Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan.

The photographs in this collection are of a Doukhobor prayer house at the former site of Oospennie village (pronounced, I am told, Oose-pen-yeh), part of the Thunderhill colony. The bricks for the building were made less than 5 kms from the village site, at what is now the site of the Assoignon farm. These photographs were not used in the exhibit, but were part of the research donated to the Archives. I understand that the building is no longer standing.

Apologies  for the repetitive imagery between the b&w and colour photographs.

 

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Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Balcony/loft of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Doorway (side) on Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Detail above window of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Detail above window of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Outer wall and foundation of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Exposed construction of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Detail of foundation of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Detail of foundation of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Detail of foundation of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Balcony/loft of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Balcony/loft of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Detail of balcony/loft of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Balcony/loft of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Detail of balcony/loft of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Detail of wall and construction on Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Detail of wall of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Detail of wall of Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

Doukhobor Prayer house on the former site of the village of Oospennie, near Whitebeech Sk

1993

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