Everything about Trinity Church Antarctica totally explained
Trinity Church is a small
Russian Orthodox church on the
King George Island near
Russian
Bellingshausen Station in
Antarctica. It is the southernmost
Eastern Orthodox church in the world.
The ambitious project to establish a permanent church or even a
monastery on Antarctica surfaced during the 1990s. A charity named
Temple for Antarctica (Храм - Антарктиде) was approved by
Patriarch Alexius II and received donations from across Russia. They organized a competition for the project that was won by architects from
Barnaul P.I. Anisifirov, S.G. Rybak and A.B. Schmidt.
The church is a 15m-high wooden structure built in traditional Russian style. It can accommodate up to 30 worshippers. The structure was built out of
Siberian Pine by
Altay carpenters led by K.V. Khromov, then dismantled, shipped to Antarctica (by the ship
Academician Vavilov) and assembled there by the staff of Bellingshausen Station. The
iconostasis was created by
Palekh painters. The church bells were paid for by the descendants of
Sergey Muravyov-Apostol.
The church was opened on
May 29,
2004, the
Pentecost or
Trinity day according to the calendar of the Russian Orthodox Church. The church was blessed by
Hieromonk Kallistrat (Romanenko), head priest of
Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra, who visited Antarctica for this occasion. The permanent priest of the church is Father Georgy, who has twenty years of polar experience and now lives permanently near his church. Among his tasks are praying for the souls of the 64 Russian people who have died in Antarctic expeditions and serving the spiritual needs of the staff of Bellingshausen Station and other nearby stations.
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