Case file · Folklore / legend
Holy Trinity Church on King George Island
Built of Siberian pine by carpenters from the Altai and consecrated on 15 February 2004, the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity at Bellingshausen Station is the southernmost Orthodox church and is staffed all year by monks of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
2004 CE · -62.20, -58.96 · status: official
The account
The 15 m wooden church was assembled by station staff under its first priest, Father Kallistrat. The first wedding in Antarctica was held there on 29 January 2007, and in February 2016 Patriarch Kirill himself served a liturgy there.
Connections in the atlas
- Chapel of the Snows, McMurdo
- Patriarch Kirill among the penguins
- The Bellingshausen stabbing and the 'book spoilers' story