Holy Ascension Church

The history of Holy Ascension Orthodox Church in Frackville, Pennsylvania is deeply connected to the same story that shaped many of our sister Orthodox parishes across the Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania. In the early 1900s, waves of faithful Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants arrived here from the Carpathian Mountains of what is now southeastern Poland. Difficult economic conditions of the Lemko people in these provinces, governed by hostile rulers who persecuted them culturally and religiously...