Igloo Church
Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, from 1960, in the shape of an igloo, built by volunteers on a base that protects the permafrost, with paintings by an Inuvialuit artist.
Territórios do Noroeste · Canada
In the destination Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk.
In the photo: View of Inuvik in autumn.
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Main town of Canada’s western Arctic, on the Mackenzie River delta, north of the Arctic Circle. Built on pilings in permafrost, it has the igloo-shaped church, colourful houses and a community greenhouse. It’s the end of the Dempster Highway and the start of the road to Tuktoyaktuk.
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The local experience
Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church, from 1960, in the shape of an igloo, built by volunteers on a base that protects the permafrost, with paintings by an Inuvialuit artist.
A gravel road of about 138 km opened in 2017 across tundra and permafrost, the first to reach the Arctic Ocean in Canada.