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KENTVILLE, N.S. - A 200-year-old Nova Scotia church is going to a Louisiana town, where it will be rebuilt to serve a congregation of 80 people, but not everyone is happy about it.

All Saints Church in Granville Ferry is being dismantled and will be shipped to Abita Springs, where it will become the community's first Baptist church.

Rev. Gerel Keene, pastor of the Baptist congregation in Abita Springs, said this week he is excited about the church coming to his small community near New Orleans.

He thanked Nova Scotians for sharing a piece of their history.

"This is more than I could ever dream for," Keene said in a telephone interview from his home. "I appreciate that Nova Scotians are blessing Louisiana with some of their culture and history.

"Not only did we get some of their great people, but now we get some of their great architecture. ... I'm just as pleased as I can be."

During the deportation of the Acadians by the British in 1755, many Acadians, now known as Cajuns, resettled in Louisiana.