The Holy Trinity Church is a Russian Orthodox church located on Waterloo Island (South Shetland Islands) in Antarctica, near the Russian polar station Bellingshausen. The church is 15 meters high and can accommodate up to 30 people. Currently, the church is a Patriarchal outpost of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. The church was built from Siberian cedar wood by a brigade of mountain Altai carpenters under the direction of K.V. Khromov in Altai, in the village of Kyzyl-Ozek, from cedar and larch wood grown on the shores of Lake Teletskoye. The church building was left to "rest" for almost a year, then it was dismantled, transported by trucks to Kaliningrad, and from there by the ship "Academician Sergey Vavilov" to Antarctica, where it was reassembled by a team of eight people in 60 days. ... For some, Antarctica becomes a revelation. When on the Feast of the Presentation of the Lord on February 15, 2004, Bishop Theognost consecrated the church at the Russian station "Bellingshausen" and served the Liturgy, one of the Chilean researchers, named Eduardo, saw during the Eucharistic Canon how the heavens opened - and the sky was cloudy - and a sunbeam penetrated into the church. This moment was captured in photographs. He believed and understood that the truth is in Orthodoxy. Before that, he was a Catholic. Upon his return to Santiago, the capital of Chile, he went to an Orthodox church and was baptized, and a few years later he became the first to be married in the Antarctic region... The polar station appeared here as early as 1968, but the idea of ​​building a church was proposed only in the 1990s. The site for construction was chosen in 2000, and the construction and opening for researchers took place two years later. In the church's altar is inscribed a list of all those who have died on the continent - about a hundred Russian and Soviet polar researchers, for whom priests pray. The church's priests change every year, roughly according to the schedule of Antarctic station workers. Religious services take place on weekends and holidays. In addition to spiritual service, they carry out the same watch duty as the others: clearing snow, working with saws and axes - in Antarctica, there is always something to do.