Church of Our Lady of Good Hope

The Church of Our Lady of Good Hope is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style Roman Catholic church building located on a bluff overlooking the Mackenzie River in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, Canada. Only 45 feet by 25 feet in size, it was built between 1865 and 1885 as a mission of the Oblate Fathers. Father Émile Petitot, "renowned ethnologist, linguist and geographer of the Canadian northwest" was a resident of the mission from 1864 to 1878.
The building's simple exterior, with its wooden siding, steep pitched roof, lancet windows and lancet entranceway under a steepled bell tower, make it a rather plain example of Carpenter Gothic style architecture, which belies the extraordinary painted decoration of its interior.
The Church of Our Lady of Good Hope was designated a National Historic Site of Canada on June 6, 1977.

Photo Credit: General view of the Church of Our Lady of Good Hope showing the steeple above front entry; with pointed arch, louvered windows on three faces, 1980. Parks Canada / Parcs Canada, 1980

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