St. James Episcopal Chapel

St. James Church is the oldest Episcopal congregation on Colorado’s western slope, established in the 1870s. The church building originally housed a carpenter's shop in the booming mining town of Lake City, high in the San Juan Mountains, and was later used briefly as a public school. Local Episcopalians purchased the building in December, 1876, and converted it to a worship space. For nearly a century, a rare Estey reed organ has provided music for our services.

St. James is a part of the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado and the national Episcopal Church, a member of the worldwide Anglican Communion, born out of the Church of England with roots extending back to the earliest days of Christianity. As Anglicans, we uphold and proclaim a catholic and apostolic faith, “based on scripture and interpreted in light of tradition and reason.” There are over 70 million Anglicans in 38 national churches or provinces.